A Poor Man’s Haavaad
by Jerry Vilhotti
For two years Johnny worked in a couple of factories with their repetitive tasks that sucked thoughts from brains and he said “no” to his father, who was showing them a one-family home which he would help them buy and would be swallowed away by a state highway in a few years, Johnny remained adamant throughout the constant tempting offer.
He told his father, whom he loved very much, that they were going back to the place of his birth and with the help of his wife – a thing almost all Burywater girls Johnny had dated would never have been able to do - go to a New York City to help him continue his education.
All seven years Johnny struggled in Harlem College that boasted of having one of the founding father’s homes on its north campus who was able to convince the new nation that debt was good and the riffraff would die to keep its country “free”; feeling an obligation of the debt incurred by the super elite and was killed to death in a gun duel by a Burr.
The school had tried to force him to go to their Baruch business school in downtown Manhattan but Johnny told them he had no interest in the mighty dollar that was replacing a second Testament God and many sacred principles, though he would become an agnostic, that were often killed to death inside platitudes and clichés and then after telling Johnny on his transcript he had only one more chance to graduate their elite school – forgetting that it was once the gateway for poor kids to gain a meaningful knowledgeable experience like Edward G. Robinson, Jonas Salk, Justice Frankfurter; one giving the world some meaningful emoting while the other created a vaccine that would rid much of the world of the dreaded disease called poliomyelitis that came too late for Johnny’s older brother Tommy Tom Tom who was infected with polio when six months old but did become a docta in family matters graduating from Brokenland College in just three years and would take for his third wife a Boston Blue blood girl and then leave her to marry his fourth wife Rhoda who would help him in the pursuit of making “lottsa moneeey” and the latter former graduate, among many great patriots like the guy who invented the tongue in cheek concept of “Don’t ask don’t tell”, while belonging to the opposite party of the then president who would get impeached but not convicted for a sexual indiscretion which killed no one, policy, not believing judges should ever elect a president who would have the secret elite group’s interests at heart; leading a Fourth World Order to become known as Globe-gobbling; trying to bring to fruition the idea of a British so called statesman who with a Yank president helped in a big way to jump start the cold war and when the great half-Englishman who won the second world war single-handily with oil in his eyes began raping the mid east in his early years of leadership to lead to a full eating of innocence in the far future and after Johnny’s surviving a male librarian’s accusation that Johnny had stolen library books – afraid all the girls reading books in his library were only there to copulate with the ruggedly good looking Johnny sporting his dark curly black hair - only after having to write a thousand word paper on his innocence for the Dean of Internal Affairs..
Johnny graduated from the college that was near the polluted part of the Hudson River while the ivy league school also in Harlem, a mile away, that insisted in its brochure it was situated by the non-polluted section of the beautiful river; sending most of its pre-med. students up to Johnny’s school’s biology department so advanced it was in producing knowledge in a non pseudo scientific way.
Johnny was able to begin a career as a teacher with a major in sociology which made him see pupils as he once was that enabled him and his wife to bring forth their own three children: a boy with blond curly hair and two lovely girls one of whom would have her mother’s blue-green eyes and hair streaked with a strawberry color and the middle one with her mother’s true love ways.
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