Kathy Acker is one of my favorite writers. She died of breast cancer about ten years ago. I miss her.

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She wrote this thing about Prince in the middle of one of her novels and I'm surprised I've never seen anyone refer to it here. It's so funny and right on!

FROM: Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream
By Kathy Acker circa '84-ish

"I think Prince should be president of the United States because all our presidents since World War II have been stupid anyway and are becoming stupider up to the point of lobotomy and anyway are the puppets of those nameless beings -- maybe they're human -- demigods, who inhabit their own nations known heretofore as 'multinationals.' On the other hand: Prince, unlike all our other images or fakes or presidents, stands for values. I mean: he believes. He wears a cross. President Reagan doesn't believe this crap he's handing out or down about happy families and happy black lynchings and happy ignorance. Worse: he might. Whereas The Prince believes in feelings, fucking and fame. Fame is making it and common sense.

The Prince doesn't have any morals. Why? Because morals're part and parcel of a government which runs partly by means of the so-called 'have-nots'' or bourgeoisie's cover-up, (via 'culture'), of the 'haves'' total control. Morality and 'Culture' are similiar tools. The only culture that ever causes trouble is amoral. The Prince isn't moral: he doesn't give a shit about anybody but himself. The Prince wouldn't die for anyone, whereas Our President will always die for everybody while he's garnering in their cash.

Look at Prince's life. He's all-American because he's part black part white which is part good part evil. When he was 13, which is a magic number, he ran away from home just like Huckleberry Finn. He had nowhere to run to, cause there's nowhere to run to anymore. So he ran to a garage. He and his friend Cymone made music while they were screwing, sharing and tying up girls. The Prince was a good boy because he didn't cuss and Cymone was the bad boy because he stole cars. Now Prince is twenty-six years old; he'll be thirty when he gets elected President of the United States. Thirty years old is the height of male cowboy American rock n' roll energy.

Don't vote for a croaker again to run your life.

Does it matter that Prince doesn't know anything about govermental politics? I presume he doesn't. All political techniques, left and right, are the praxis and speech of the controllers. How can we get rid of these controllers, their praxis and speech or politics? Let the country go to Hell. By going to Hell, Prince, a good Catholic, might be able to save the country. Anyway, we'd have a lot more fun than now, now when we're slowly being turned into fake people who're alienated from themselves, or zombies. Our minds're floating in other bodies. The Prince is Dr Strange so he'll restore to us and restore us to those lowest of pleasures that are the only ones we Americans, being stupid, desire. Fucking, food, and dancing. This is the American Revolution.

It has been said that Prince presents nothing: he's dead, an image. But who do you think you are? Are you real? Such reality is false. You can only be who you’re taught and shown to be. Those who have and are showing you, most of the controllers, are shits. Despite that, how can you hate you or the image? How can you be who you're not and how can you not be? Prince accepts his falsity. We must be conscious in order to fight outside control. Make Prince, who may be conscious, the next president of the United States."
[Edited 10/23/06 10:32am]
[Edited 10/23/06 10:33am]

2008 Org Prince for President Write-in Campigain!
Most Americans will be so fed up with politics as ususal by then that he just might win.

Did she always write like that?