Yesterday our whole family watched the Easter Parade. It was weird, because we really don’t do things like that. But Nell-mom wanted to sketch some of the people, and then Gary Daddy-o said he would come, and before I knew it all of us were standing there on Fifth Avenue looking at ladies in their dress-up hats, a.k.a. Easter bonnets.
Nell-mom brought her
sketch pad, so of course everyone was looking at her and some people wanted her
to draw them and other people didn’t. Gary Daddy-o started talking about the
parade as a tool of the Man to keep people occupied so they wouldn’t know they
were being oppressed as workers and slaves.
Nell-mom looked up
from her sketching and said Kerouac was religious, and in fact he’s Catholic.
Gary Daddy-o asked if Kerouac was going to attend the Easter Parade, which was
in fact about clothes and money. Ray said he wished he had his saxophone
because he’d like to play it and make some money.
Then Gary Daddy-o
said this parade started because the churches wanted to throw their weight
around and lord it over the rest of us and censor and oppress us. Nell-mom
didn’t answer him at that point, but she did say “Shush!”
The whole thing made
me think a little more about Jack Kerouac and wonder if he was celebrating
Easter and if so, how, and did he think about the whole beatitude thing, and
Beats, and what would that mean to him, exactly.
By the time I
finished my hot dog the Parade was just starting to get crowded and people
walked by in the most outrageous outfits.
I think for Nell-mom, anyway... it was a really good day.
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