monte mo

met an ol’timey bloke we came t call th reverend monte mo: had th credentials but took

up tow truck driving and  home schooling  in the winters’ snow-capped hills  above the

grapevine.  The only close contact mine & I have had wit home school teachers …were

the exact antithesis to any of the disparagin gone down agint said: mista n mrs. monte mo

monte tought earth & biological science, tapestry, arborary husbandry, emergency &

garage automotive & radio electronics, …while taking calls as a cut of o 4 man wrecker

committee on the ins & outs of navigating said passage wit wigged-out passengers in tow

missus monte mo tought readin, writin, & arithmetic wit an emphasis on comprehension,

home economics, accounting, small appliance and wiring repair, her take on the classics,

& horticulture.  I only got to hang with them a few days a week and usually we were in &

out. & the year passed by in a wink of a sigh when we families took to flyin (each too the

winds in an effort to reside comfortably enough 2 abide in air conducive 2 our individual

and partnered, weatherworn and ionic* aims, balanced on notions beneficial to a family

tree).

their kids were popular with the public school cliques, as mom & dad threw quarterly

parties/camp-outs/etcetera at home … & allowed them to monitor select public school

classes and extracurriculars once they were around freshman age.  They tested very high

on all prerequisite and standardized tests.    I thought: “as a mid income, mid-California,

midnight-fishin family o four, they were banking on the birth of a you-baby new age of

benevolent reason,

and...music season,

&  an economically

-sound West across

the total spectrum;

they did it before,

they..can do it

again, bro.

respects,

mbear

* Being ionic (in this case) is to be physiologically valid, capable of remaining in some

free-flowing, non-bound, ionic form, endeavoring towards balanced solutions to typical daily

human complications; inherently either positively or negatively charged, causing us to interact,

attracting or repelling each other in the search for a sense of home & creature comforts.  

(…he-he, jus noodling, …there’s something cosmically fascinating about “ions” iz all.)