Jones: I have loved you, how very much I have tried my best to give you the good life. In spite of all that I've tried, a handful of our people, with their lies, have made our life impossible. There's no way to detach ourselves from what's happened today. Not only– We're in a compound situation, not only are there those who have left and committed the betrayal of the century, some have stolen children from others and then seek right now to kill them because they stole their children, and we are sitting here waiting on a powder keg. I don't think it is what we want to do with our babies. I don't think that's what we had in mind to do with our babies. It was said by the greatest of prophets, from time immemorial, "No man takes my life from me, I lay my life down."
Crowd: Yeah!
Jones: So, to sit here and wait for the catastrophe that's going to happen on that airplane (it's gonna be a catastrophe) ... Almost happened here, almost happened, the congressman was nearly killed here... But you can't steal people's children. You can't take off with people's children without expecting a violent reaction. And, that's not so unfamiliar to us, either, even if we were Judeo-Christian, even if we weren't Communists. The worldly kingdom suffers violence and the violence is triggered by force. If we can't live in peace then we must die in peace.
Jones: We've been so betrayed, we have been so terribly betrayed, but we've tried, and as Jack Beam often said (and I don't know where he's at right this moment, poor Jack), he says if it's only worked one day, it was worthwhile ...
Crowd: Cheers . com
"Drunk at the matinee" is a collection of candid poetry about stupid shit that we all experience from day to day.
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