My name is ozymandias, King of kings. Look at my work ye mighty and despair ! Nothing besides remains, round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away ...
The last weeks of september were all increasingly violent and strange. You can just feel something is building up And ready to explode. Riots, government needs and drugs, pipe weapons are made, laws and people are and will be broken, and the tensions with China ...
I may look like a complete idiot but i read newspapers and listen to things. Some of my friends and relatives think all will be settled or destroyed. Today is october 2 and its a sunny day and thanks to my friend Nathan i dont have to work, even if its sunday but i would have a shift, well at least the 'official' one. And well this one is not a job really but more like a duty and something useful to my country and people.
Even if my family is not born here but they worked their ass off and earned what they have, while not fanatically patriots. My friend meanwhile was a soldier and is now doing his duty even after his term. I dont really have something to do with this but i help him even if not legally. Even in these desperate times i wasnt taken in the army because of some fucking papers missing, and well, id like to not die for greedy and money hungry politician or autority. I have always been exercising since my teens with trekking, boxing and hunting and my buddy gave me and hand to improve on some of my skills in other areas and be useful for me and my people. I help him against rioters and looters and sometimes pretending to be one of them to infiltrate.
Even suspected communist groups. Even in a society with rules sometimes i had to kill some people.. And its not like the police force can be anywhere ...I have a cousin in the police but he doesnt know and another how is taking a bad turn. And the first could have shot me mistaking me for a looter.. and i guess i am suicidal.
I entered one group of dirty commies and gave Nate my annotations on them. Fuckers infiltrated places and got sympatizers and fueled that damn paranoia. They are people too, just different ideas and not inclined to see their fucking flaws and where it was leading them. Today i am in central boston to see him and look for any danger. In my car trunk, my aluminium bat, baton and pipe pistol and on me a switch blade.
Ah the cars.. continents destroyed for fuel by the wars called the resource wars. Europe, middle east, Africa and latin america in the west while indochina, Australian emisphere, china and Russia in the east. That officially, war is everywhere but is silent, and what happens in the dark can be more dangerous and even ending worse. Greed, violence and big corporations corruption... its not perfect but at least we are alive and thats all that counts. One thing after the other and hopefully we get a stabilization in this world.
Im in a diner and looking around, people here are tense but we continue with our daily lives, and well the 2 waitresses walking around.. Even better than those Pin ups ! And their uniforms dont help with my 'happiness' as i try to be impassible. "Hi ! You ok ? You seen .. tired"
Eh if you only knew, i just smile and look at that perfect and simmetrical face with a healthy skin tone
"nah dont worry just nervous about my job. I'll take some fries and water" she writes it "would you like a cola ? We got regular and cherry" heh id like to pop another kind of cherry " a regular then. Just those ? I heard a nua cola park was opened somewhere"
"Oh nuka world? If i didnt always have to work id just go there !" " inflation, have to pay the high prices"
"Yes ... I go get your order anyway" " thanks"
Out of the corner of my eye a figure stands "took you long enough to notice me ( he sits in front of me) am i ugly ?! "
ah you idiot .. " weell i can say you cost me a lot" with a grin
"Heh just work more lazy bum ! Anyway thanks for coming. Things can get worse but i dont complain"