Democratic License by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview
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I took up the violin for a while and actually released a few songs on MP3 Juice under the name Itzhak Diddley. I was under the impression that ethnic diversity was in, and I put a drawing of a moulinyan on the cover, but I got zero sales. The standardized structure mixed with driving improvisation must have been too inventive for the mass taste. I mean like they have grudgingly accepted Coltrane’s “A Few of My Favorite Things” after he was dead. That’s the only time the jerks recognize genius.
Wifey #2 came along for a short time. She too was jewish, as living in Israel there is little other choice other than a Palestinian. And yuck on that. I had transferred to MOSSAD’s Tel Aviv office because my supervisor in Haifa had the common bookworm’s fetish of being a big macho man, and kept inviting me to “pump iron” and look at muscle magazines with him after work.
So gay. Most of our time together, my wife and I that is, was spent clipping coupons which we’d mostly get by trucking off the throwaways with them at the entrance to the local Walmart, most of which she’d sell door to door for the standard Biden price.
You’d be surprised how much you can make doing that.
Having had a child by each marriage, the splits were a messy legal conundrum, still unresolved. While child support payments by me were obliged for those Generation Z brats who I despised, it was also the case that each wife had a higher income than me, calling for two contradictory payments to me, which perhaps negated that. This situation has caused more legal consternation than Dickens’ “Bleak House” Jarndyce v. Jarndyce. That being tedious, I took the rational way out, and decided to simplify my end and change jurisdictions. As an aficionado of what is now merchandised as “European classic pop,” the inherent contradiction a personal delight, my naturally upbeat predisposition, and its corresponding favorite song more or less gradually shifted from:
A Whiter Shade of Pale