2/25/2005

entry: #033:: Obit For Hunter


HUNTER S.THOMPSON

Hunter

[1937-2005]

Loathsome Secrets...
Of a Star-Crossed Child...
In the Final Days...
Of the American Century...


Whore that he was...
That Hunter S.Thompson...
For having the last laugh...
Son-of-a-bitch...
Bowing out like that...
Just as the world ignites...

Kapow!

"So long and Mahalo..."
Gonzoid prophet...
Subversive junkie...
Hedonist...
Sweet Jesus...
He was God, okay...

Horse-syringes, loaded shotguns, cans of Mace...
And a crazy leer in his eye...

Fear & Loathing...
Every step of the way for this cowboy...
Daily epiphany...
On tap from the barrel of a vengeful God...
In a Stetson...

"A howling, violence freak..."
Fuelled by LSD, ether, alcohol...
And...
Suicidal tendency...

Let's be honest, here...
dammit...
Anyone prepared to call...
dear Mr President a "Whore Beast," honey...
Deserves deification in my book...

Honorific doctor...
Always...
Divinity surfing the waves of the Apocalypse...
Red, white and blue...
You betcha...


His Partner-in-Swine...
Ralph Steadman...
48-hours-after-hearing-of-his-co-conspirators departure:

"Since it happened my feet haven't touched the ground. It's like I can still speak to Hunter beyond the grave. Like he is saying, 'Don't fuck up on this one, Ralph! Tell it like you knew it, but don't bad mouth me!! You always knew I was going to do it, so it wasn't 'if' but 'when'. It was my call Ralph and now you will have to deal with the flood. Apres moi, Ralph - the deluge!!

"Did you think it was going to be an easy ride? You knew what you were doing when you brought a ticket. You were there most of the time, but towards the end you couldn't handle the heat, but you made the role of Honor by the skin of your teeth. So long Ralph, and thanks for the laughs. And remember - The Crazy Never Die! Look after Anita."

HST...
Free-basin' the highway of life...
Snorting it...
Shooting it...
Any which fucking way...

Whilst humanity hits global-meltdown...
The Duke decides to cash in his post-millennial chips...
Bitch, that....

He was, after all...
The bad-ass muther...
Who reportedly spat at Richard M.Nixon...
"Go get 'em, Dick. Throw the bomb! Fifty years more of the Thousand year Reich!"

God I'm gonna miss him...
Trail-blazing fucker...


RIP > GONE, BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN >



































1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Having known Hunter personally I can say that for a man who could handle being mad drunk and yet maintain complete composure and whom hated those that couldn't themselves when in that condition, and whom would take speed and write/type for 72 to 96 hour marathons with no need to proof read cause he was a naturals and naturals like that have that "flow" so they don't think what they write/type they KNOW, I will say that Hunter was in control every minute of his life all the way to his end and in every Goddamn way a One-of-a-kind and proof-positive that an artist is creatively constructive when under a given psychoactive-stimuli.

And I thank him for that because it explains Edgar Allen Poe and his morphine making & compelling him to write the shit that he wrote and Ernest Hemingway and his booze he couldn't of wrote without and Jim Morrison and his cornucopia of drugs and his beloved red wine he used to write shit poetically ahead of his time case in point:"An American Prayer".

I too fit into this catagory of minds/people because of #1 I have ADD and am prescribed methamphetamine for it and #2 I am a Countercultural Chemist and make those products of pleasure beloved the world over and can function more cognitively and creatively and PRODUCTIVELY when I'm harnessing a hyperfocus so as to write my minds' eye's insight.


Hunter S. Thompson® left as he lived-enigmatically. We're still saying hello to you Hunter and will for decades to come so I myself can't say goodbye but I can say Peace Out and thank you for your reminding me and others that I/we too can live like you and need look only to myself for the right permission to do so.


So shine on you crazy diamond®.

Scott the Space Trucker²®


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