﻿It’s Hard to Believe What We See Today 
By T-BONE SLIM 
 
Continuation of the present day policies spells p. m. (goodnight) and big shots will stick up signs, USA FOR RENT. Rents Progress Aberration should in the meantime be hexed along with Unearned Profits Autocracy. These two (RPA and UPA) can be overcome only with the OBU. 

Ho hum. “With God’s help I will wash these dishes.” “With God’s help I will push this wheelbarrow.” “God Bless America”— including Hawaii and Alaska. Pretty big order, that— anyhow, it’s better than “God bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more.” May as well ask for plenty. 

‘Twas rough titmbered country. Coming around a railroad bend at daybreak I glanced into the woods. There sleeping with a tree-root pillow I saw several sovereign citizens that had ostracized society and its conventions. 
Recognizing one by the complete over-all suit, glossy as if he had been toiling in a glue works or starch factory, I exclaimed: “Well, catching up on a little sleep?” 
Eyelids opened, for it was fresh morning, and down at the foot of the hill there was a rustle of weeds and leaves. Out of the weeds scurried one, then another, and a third, almost as a unit to the “jungle” fireplace; at which they pawed feaverishly, as if the life or death of a nation hung on their moves . . . 
Of course, I must have been dreaming all this, for it is unreasonable to think anything like that could happen in the land of the free and the home of the brave.