White Dark - The Men Rex Rutherford’s Land By Derek Hunter - Los Angeles Land masses lean on the fingernails of Nigel. So said Nigel to me years ago. Nigel being from Manchester, England. … not a near cousin but a Distant. Distance. … the Determined Dialogue of Distance. Land Mass. not Catholic Mass. nor the Black Mass. … of which Nigel has mentioned some Mormon Moon Participation. … but Sin here today, Tomorrow. … and yesterday. Land Mass and Distance have shot arrows through my heart … to make their presence known. … won the battle over that territory. might have been stabbed with wit. … stereotypes of silver sterling, silver certificates of five dollars … all point out the Odd Eye in Lincoln. Lincoln’s Odd, Large, Silver Left Eye on the Silver Certificate Five Dollar Bills. … handed out in 1934. Lazy heat glowed and glutted inside the gluttony of a three-story apartment complex … on 11th and Westmoreland, in the middle of January. … This year, as for most years, in my home city, birth city, Los Angeles, City of Angels. … there wasn’t much gloom in the skies … not when the rest of the country was frosty and dark, framed and dripping. This building, my building, my property, Rex Rutherford’s, who is I, who is me. … my Land Mass with housing structure on Top. this apartment complex was built in the early 70’s by less than thorough developers from New Jersey. … they believed Korea Town would be the next Beverly Hills. … They waited, yearned for again … two years for the transmission to take place on the Placard. but by the Mid-70’s. … even now … 30 plus years later, Korea Town had yet to become another Beverly Hills … nor the Next Beverly Hills. Stayed throughout the danced, dancing decades the same. … dominated by, trapped in for, squared off with Korean businesses. … Korean signs. … Korean high risers. Korean this. Korean that. … not a dead zone. not a burly whirly zone. … but forever insulated. by it’s hermetic. … closed off. .. Hideaway. Korean-only Theme. Expansion and growth. World Renown Revenge. … Reindeers could not cum. with one. … only one culture. forever fore-playing with itself. … till it dropped dead. … on Denmark’s dents. This was what We, The West, Understood. … while the rest of the world. was still trapped in the ice age of two astrological ages ago. The White Man’s Burden … Progress. … Anyhow. … how those two Sleazy, Slimy, gorilla grease ball Italian brothers ever imagined an area already culturally specific with its name … always had been … Nomadic to Nancy … the Narrow Netherworld … moronic and moonshine … could be the next Beverly Hills, I had no idea. to Mary’s Moron’s, The brothers were begging to brood on borders, so sold the property to me cheap as dirt … as dirty as anything. cheaper than it should be. … words-sling shaving scented to scandals. in a haphazard state adorned with fuzz. … I fixed up some of it. … knew not all had to be taken care of … Why create the creeks? … without crevices? … cracks and cremations? I knew lower-income the area would remain. lower income meant lower expectations for the tenets. Poor people brutalize their properties. … bring the chain gangs with them. littering and trashing. smashing and thrashing. … their homes and neighborhood. with zest and vigor.
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