Sunday, April 29, 2018

my treat


by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"



i was walking down the street

i stopped and sat down on a park bench

behind me i heard somebody say

all i want is to be treated like a human being

what does that mean, i wondered

to be treated like a human being

how about you?

are you treated like a human being?

do you treat other people like human beings?

what about cats and dogs and reptiles and bugs?

do you treat them like human beings?

i started thinking about human beings

do you remember saddam hussein? or qaddafi? they were human beings


how were they treated?

they both started out well

they thought they were doing pretty good

saddam ended up living in a hole in the ground and then he was hanged

qaddafi was murdered in the street

how did you treat sadden hussein?

how did he treat you?

if you are a little older you might remember ronald reagan and margaret thatcher and o j simpson

they were human beings too

how did you treat them and how did they treat you?


and if you are a real old timer you might remember khruschev and marilyn monroe and general douglas macarthur

or you could go to the library and read books about people even further back, like hitler and florence nightingale and mary queen of scots and cleopatra and confucius

human beings, every one of them

how were they treated?

there have been a lot of human beings

it gets hard to keep track them all

you know what i'm saying?

it just goes to show you



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