Is that synchronic or diachronic. Your chronicle.
It's asynchronous. The Melanesian gambit.
Headhunters at Port Moresby, worshipping a C-47.
Timex watches and a case of Franco-American spaghetti.
The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, or Buzzard Cult,
was a revitalization movement, or cargo cult. Nativistic.
Compare the Berserkers, or wearers of the Bear Shirt,
invincible in battle. Or Osceola. A hadjo motherfucker.
Singer of the Black Drink. A war chief, not an hereditary chief.
Andrew Carnegie said not to leave the young a trust fund.
It enfeebles them. But who will then write our literature?
Where will our prince come from?
The working class?
Poor people?
The hoi polloi?
Yes. Rabblerousers. Disturbers of
the status quo. Muckrakers. Satirists.
Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley and Brother Dave.
Redd Foxx. Moms Mabley. Come on, youngblood,
let's swap some fours. As Max Roach said to Bobby Bradford at
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse, a nightclub in Hermosa Beach.
West Coast Jazz. Not hardly. Names and labels. Is that narrative
nonfiction or prescriptive (how-to). All at the house is
is stories.