Thursday, January 22, 2009

Leroy and the day at the Mall.

So there I was. Sitting in the wheelchair, looking around the big open space of the Mall. Yeah, I had heard of the Big O doing his speech. How could I have missed it. All I Had to do was turn my head towards one of the big old TV’s that are spread around and I could see his head on the screen.

Oh what a moment it was. I really enjoyed seeing that big man on the screen, just think a black man like me could actually be president of the United States. Not that I could ever do something like that. I cant even walk, cause of my disease. I know that’ll all change now because of the Big O has got my back and he’s gonna get me nationalized health care.

He might even be able to get me to walk again. Ought to be pretty expensive, but the Big O says he gonna ‘take care of me.’ That good ol’ health care system that Igot now, you know the stuff they give to Vet’s. Well, it’s done tried to make things work for me, but with this new health care system coming, I’m gonna fly, the Big O promised me.

So, here I am thinking of all the dreams and hopes that I have now that the Big O is prez, I’m just rolling down the avenue in front of where I was yesterday, when all the big events was going on, and I can’t tell you what I saw. Yesterday there was an ocean of people, today there’s an ocean of garbage.

Why is it that all those people have to mess up my front yard. No, I don’t sleep in the whitehouse. I sleep behind the American Museum. There’s a small hovel back there where I can hide at night. I don’t have to worry about someone mugging me (not that I got anything). I don’t have to worry about someone giving me a hard time, All I gots to remember is to cover myself on the cold nights. No big deal really. This way I can’t get harassed by the bad men or the cops.

I reach down and try and pick some of it up. A policeman comes over and asks me what I’m doing. I said to him, ‘leave me alone copper, I got the Big o on my side.’ He backed off, cause he knew that things have changed. Before the Big O, I had the Lord Jesus on my side. The Big W had made sure by getting the gov to give money to charities, but heck with that now. I don’t need no Jesus, I got something better on my side – the BIG O.