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For Roger Dubar
Thanks: Marisa, Art Alexakis, Don McGlashan
When everything is simple in the white and the black
You will never have to see the grey anymore

You will never have to be afraid . . .
Please don't tell me that this isn't what you asked for . .
Be careful what you ask for


Blackjack, A. P. Alexakis
from Slow Motion Daydream by Everclear
Prologue:

Burial and Exhumation
November 11, 2001


'Bin Laden? A fucking charlatan.'

'Be serious for a minute/ Williams told him.

'I am being serious. That's my point. Everybody's so
reverent about this guy. Strip away all the mythologising
and hocus-pocus and what have you got? Patty Hearst with
a beard. Bored rich kid playing at soldiers. He's in the huff
with his family, for Christ's sake - the psychology's pitifully
mundane. If he'd been born into a semi in Surbiton he'd
have painted his bedroom black, got himself a Nine Inch
Nails T-shirt and hung around swingparks drinking cider
from plastic bottles.'

Fotheringham's rant was attracting admonitory glances,
more in disapproval of the growing volume and vehemence
than the content, which wouldn't have been clearly
discernible above the whipping wind. Raised voices were
not decorous at a funeral; they suggested that your thoughts
were not respectfully concentrated upon the memory of the