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So, the first time I saw him was at the annual city festival
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at the end of the plaza on, uh, Punker Hill;
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also known as the Island of Misfits.
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Um, it's like a mound of black leather
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and Army surplus jackets and boots,
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and spiky egg-white hairdos and Mohawks,
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and second-generation Exploited and Minor Threat and Sex Pistols patches and stuff.
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Basically a haven for the misunderstood punk-y, rock-y,
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goth-y, woe-is-me types.
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And uh, and there he was, like, right in the middle of it all.
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Um, oversize foam yellow cowboy hat, and pink plastic
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Toys 'R Us pistols, and a holster.
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Off-white dashiki, uh, shirt and tattered bell bottom jeans.
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Leathered feet. Raleigh cigarette finger stains.
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And he was an island within an island and I just
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kind of had to know more.
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So, I, uh, I sat with him for hours to try and get a bearing
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on his beautiful insanity.
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Every third inquiry was met with, you know,
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an eloquent but unusual response, and, you know,
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the subsequent exchange,
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it kind of warranted continuing the conversation cause
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he was, he was interesting.
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Of course the other two-thirds of my efforts were
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dismissed while he took in the constant flow of the festival
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crowd all around us:
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the raging river of multi-cultural music, art, food, families.
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All of this with his Walkman at full volume. I think it was
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Foreigner playing through the headphones.
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And I asked "Maybe, you know, maybe you can turn that
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down so we can talk?" and he replied,
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"Can you hear me?" and I said "Yes", and he said
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"Well, then it's fine."
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He never really pretended-not once-to be able to organize
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all this chaos that was going on around us. He just
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unapologetically chose which pieces to focus on.
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Well, you know, after a few hours we seemed to have kind
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of found our stride, found our rhythm.
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Kinda settled into it and we're having these intermittent
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conversations, flipping back and forth between the chaos
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and the focus.
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And then just kinda out of nowhere, he seemed to become
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a little unsettled and disturbed, and I asked him what was
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wrong,
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and he just blurted out "Peanut, Paris and syrup" and then
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he looked at me like I would know what that means.
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And then he said, "you have any... do you have any
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batteries?" So basically his Walkman was running out of
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power and he just needed batteries.
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So before I could even turn and ask one of our fellow
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punkers for some double-A's, he grabbed my face with
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both hands, and then for the first time in the entire
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conversation he gave me his complete focus and attention
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-completely present-and calmly said,
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"We will never know world peace until three people can
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simultaneously look each other straight in the eye."
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Should the oceans rise
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Should the sky come falling down
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Should the islands tremble beneath us
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See our better nature blossom
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Should the sun rain fire
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Should Hell on Earth freeze over
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And our enemies wait hungry
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See our better nature feed them
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Should the sun rain fire
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Should Hell on Earth freeze over
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When our enemies wait hungry
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See our better nature feed and clone them
Puscifer - "The Remedy" (Official Music ...
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