It is real hard to do a job brightly, happily and well when all your
co-workers are whining about everything, and they look at you like you're
crazy when you look at all happy to be doing a wonderfully mindless job
for wonderfully strange people for a wonderfully low wage which keeps you
ascetic and pure. I worked for a moving company for some bit, and let me
tell you, your fellow movers sure get in a snit if they see you not
having a terrible time while moving boxes. It wasn't really that hard a
job if you didn't try to prove you were a man for giggling manikin
customer girls by lifting boxes three times your weight and reducing your
spine to a 6-inch length like most everyone else was doing. And when it
was hard, praise Dobbs it was hard! I went home aching, sobbing, laughing
after each 18 hour day during College Week, delirious and itching for
MORE WORK PLEASE! The only bad thing about it was they wouldn't let you
sing on the job, they wouldn't let you laugh hysterically on the job,
they kept calling me a pussy faggit to get me to hurt myself, so I quit.
Over the social approval of morons! Can you believe it?
Nowadays I work Dorm Crew at Harvard, cleaning toilets, cleaning sinks,
washing away piss and puke, singing grotesque renditions of opera and
bothering my clients, who never seem to complain although they always
look annoyed. It's better than anything. I'm thinking seriously of
quitting Harvard and becoming a janitor. The social side would probably
be shit, but you never know. Maybe a lot of janitors choose their
profession for the same reason I would. I dunno.
Which leads me to my question. Does anyone know any good negro
spirituals, who are the better singers thereof, if there is a newsgroup
for negro spirituals, etc?
-QPM