Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Rebecca Sedwick, age 12 -- Bullied to Death


I read accounts of bad news all the time, but I can't seem to shake this one.  You'd think that in a planned world children would not be among the most vile, hurtful segment of the population.  Rebecca solved her predicament by jumping to her death.  The bullying continued posthumously -- one of the bullies wrote this on her Facebook page:   “yes I bullied Rebecca and she killed herself, but I don’t give a fuck.”  There's a little secret that enlightened first-grade teachers keep to themselves:  some children are just no damned good.  I argue that these little monsters are even worse than that.  Just ask Becky's family.  Existentialism has a pretty face.  She wears no makeup.  She's confused.  She's terrified.  All the Gods and Goddesses wouldn't, didn't, couldn't intervene in this, the latest of innumerable human horrors.  I think that if someone were to reason that this was "God's will,"  I'd lose all control.  Insanity reigns hallowed within the cells of human ignorance.

12 Jacqulyn Drive, Nashville, Tennessee

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Paul Smith

That burly, troubled, spirited man above, depicted while supervising the construction of the metal bridge on the Montgomery Road, was the love of my life. We went to jail together in Roane County when I was still in diapers. He ran off the road, drunk, and I had shat myself well. I remember it. No shit.