What Russ and I did was pure Theatre
the Earth our Stage
a tale told by two idioms,
full of sound, silence, fury, flash, emptiness, trickery, rage, always the rages until the Peace.....Forever Now
signifying everything
that two such clowns can teach
a story of bros and hos and pros and cons
and a guy too dumb to be anything but real
play it Real
right or wrong
play it Real
"ragged but real" sometimes
Real Smooth at others...
that was me...
Russell loved me....and I loved him....and love him still
The way Real Men love
each of us Real in our own way....i guess....
He played his part for fame and money
I played it straight, just me and free
He played the Trickster,
I played me and tricked him sometimes
just to show him i could
if i tried
Many people knew Russ but didn't know him
I knew him...
as men who know each other deep know
like my dad, he was conflicted enedlessly except
when i clarified their thinking
by bein' me with them
and sometimes they didn't like it
in the end they were both afraid
of what i had shown them about themselves
and their inabilities to control....
me....
but, ah, the tales of the covenant between us
these tales they used to tell
"your keen analytical mind", said Russ, matter-of-factly
"encyclopedia brain,", snarled my dad......
had 'em both fooled, i guess
Together we did a psychodrama real...
the Meeting, the plan to make him the world's most famous Indian "for the People", the March, YTC, the Riot-Helmets, Fools Crow, Matthew "Noble RedMan" King, Kenny Kane/King, the Blood Ceremony, un-Thanksgiving, Alcatraz, Greasy Grass, Austin Two Moon, the Bellecourts, Dennis Banks, Bella Stumbo and the LA TIMES magazine, the NoShitPants Glaring, the Disguise on Pismo Pier, the Covenant to Act it out, the Retirement from AIM, the dinner, "it's all about Tatanka", the Triangle, Window Rock, Bear Butte, Tehachapi, Bakersfield, Washington State, the Betrayal, Mary, the RagTeachings, "Do you know what your father told me?', the "godfather" pipe and controversy, the many conversations, the Plagiarisms, the Sextalk, Sue in Grass Valley, the Crazy years, the Autonomous AIM roster, the Italian Payoff Scam, the "should i be packin'?" scare, the car hustle, hustlin' the Libertarians, Larry Flynt, the NSA, the Moonies, the Homes & Lifestyles Scam, the Grass Valley Rally and PipeSmoke with the Cowboy, the Drives, the Relatives, Pearl Street, Autobiography, Marvin Wolf, the Agreement, the Breakup....stuff i don't recall......all those memories and makeups and omissions in "Where White Men Fear To Tread".....first effort by the Savage Tribe...working title "The Nine Lives of Russell Means", the Facebook Friendship years, Charlie Smoke, AIM, Black Magic Women, college girls, stuff that shouldn't be said, except in a movie...Psychological Terrorism, discussions of things not known to anyone else, Inipi times.....learning the via negativa....doing what he said and shocking him (if an elder admires....), so many things......the Cancer....the Recovery....the Farewell...
all part of the psychodrama
Russell Means and I --pure Theatre--he for whatever he did it for, me bein' me....
it came together like a crucifixion, the pulling together of opposites, two idioms alive and recognizing sign language and aura and thinking alike about so many things, coming at it from different angles, melding every time we were together
for the Earth and the Generations
agreeing on the principle.."all news is good news".....some of it now so documented and signed off on that nobody can alter it....
a serendipitous play, Real Man foiling off of The Actor, for the Earth and the Generations,
becoming one
one for the money, two for the show
It's a wrap.
This Intentional Tale we told (he told others with others, but this was ours...his and mine)....
that's having a happy ending, they way i view it in its final cut....
for the Earth and the Generations....
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What Russ and I did was pure Theatre
the Earth our Stage
a tale told by two idioms,
full of sound, silence, fury, flash, emptiness, trickery, rage, always the rages until the Peace.....Forever Now
signifying everything
that two such clowns can teach
a story of bros and hos and pros and cons
and a guy too dumb to be anything but real
play it Real
right or wrong
play it Real
"ragged but real" sometimes
Real Smooth at others...
that was me...
Russell loved me....and I loved him....and love him still
The way Real Men love
each of us Real in our own way....i guess....
First Friends....
It's a Wrap.
The Show is over.
*but carried forward in a better way in our Generations....for Real*
--"Merciless" Savage Steve Pipkin
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