"You enter the world with nothing; you leave it with nothing; and during your life on earth it is better to have nothing."
-Yuwipi; Vision & Experience in Oglala Ritual
By William K. Powers
king leer
your boyfriend, he
went down one knee
well, could it be
he's only got one knee?
i tried to surprise you
with vodka
or, tizer
i can't quite remember
but you didn't thank me
you didn't even thank me
because you never do
your boyfriend, he
has the gift of the gab
or, could it be
the gift of the grab?
i tried to surprise you
i lay down beside you
and... nothing much happened
and you didn't phone me
you didn't even phone me
because it's not your style to dial
your boyfriend, he
has displayed to me
more than just a real hint of cruelty
i tried to surprise you
i crept up behind you
with a homeless chihuahua
you cooed for an hour
you handed him back and you said,
"you'll never guess! i'm bored now."
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- A.A. Milne
homophobia is now an excuse to be lenient on murderers
On the afternoon of April 12, 2007, a man named Aaron Hall (nicknamed gShortyh because of his slight build and miniscule stature - he barely topped 54 and weighed around 100 pounds) met some fellow Crothersville natives, coming back from their Stop-In at the liquor store. 19-year-old Garrett Gray,18-year-old Coleman King, and 21-year-old Jamie Hendricks picked Hall up and went back to Grayfs house, where they proceeded to drink and hang out.
From every indication from sparse news reports and word of mouth, it began as a verbal insult, maybe to Grayfs dead mother, maybe to Kingfs heterosexuality, maybe to nothing at all.
The ewhyf will probably never be fully known to us. Whatever the details, Hall said the wrong thing. And sparked in Gray and King what the official Initial Hearing report termed a gsudden heat.h
A gsudden heath which would last throughout the next 24 hours.
Hall was beaten to death over a period of 24 hours, two men using their boots to beat him over 72 times, taking turns jumping on his broken battered body, pulling him down stairs by the feet so that his head would 'bounce' every step of the way, and finally dumped in a ditch. Apparently, this was ok, because he 'came on to them'.
