Bike

I didn't ride my bike at all last year, after two heart attacks I thought it would be best not to. Today would be different but first had to get both tires inflated. Walked the bike to the bus stop and waited for the bus to arrive. Now in all these years I've never taken the bike on the bus as I would just ride it so I had no idea how the bike holders worked. Thankfully the driver was nice enough to get out and show me.

So off I went to find air which isn't as easy as I thought. Either the machines were broken or they charged a dollar which I did not have. So took it to the bike shop on Warren Ave and they were nice enough to fill the tires for me for free. So with the tires inflated I rode my bike (rather badly) for the first time in a few years. I almost fell a few times but I was getting back into it when it happened, a massive chest pain. I fell onto the ground and laid there with my heart racing and skipping, feeling pain. Lying there I did what my doctor has drilled into my head and took one of my nitro tablets.

I felt fine within minutes yet I felt exhausted too. I finally got up but slowly walked the bike to where I could catch a bus again. Then something happened that in my 54 years has never happened before, a pigeon crapped on me...right on the fucking head. I thought I was gonna puke! I've been told that brings luck but what it truly did was make my resolve to get home and take a shower stronger that the exhaustion.

So here I am, home and clean. If anyone tells you they saw a fat middle aged man lying on the ground in East Providence you can tell them you heard it here first.

4th of July

Today is the 4th of July, the anniversary of our country declaring independence from the United Kingdom. We the people, though they didn't include slaves, natives, women, or non land owners but we the people sounded better than us white men. Anyways we stood up for our rights. Sadly those left out are still struggling for their rights.

Descendants of slaves can still be killed by police. Like the men who rounded up slaves back in the day they get away with it by blaming the victims. They shouldn't have run away. Until all races are treated equally we can never really call ourselves the land of the free, can we?

Native Americans were slaughtered for their land. Pure and simple genocide but still today they have no rights when it interferes with what white men want. One only has to look at whats happening at Standing Rock to see little has changed for them. Land of the brave, yeah.

Women have had equal rights since the equal rights amendment passed. Oh wait, it never did. Until it is written into law it is just lip service. Is it too little to ask that our elected officials guarantee the rights of half the population?

Non land owners are at the whimsy of landlords who make keep them in substandard housing so they can turn a buck. In the "so called" greatest country in the world a little rent control would be a great thing. Much like a living wage and universal healthcare it is truly needed in this land of ours
So Happy Birthday America! Nice to see we celebrate genocide, terrorist acts, and traitors, the true ideals our country was founded on and still stands for today. If only we lived up to the principles set forth in our constitution and our bill of rights.