Patriotism (after Mishima) — by Mitch Sisskind

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Okay, the people of Westhaven were angry that the presidential election

would get rigged against R.L. Greene. 

R.L. Greene himself often said how an election is a right of free speech

and interfering with free speech is treason against the constitution. 

As an example of free speech, R.L. Greene was the only candidate for

president who ever said the word fuck during a campaign. He liked to say,

“I let the fuck out of the bag.” 

He also said you can’t put toothpaste back in a tube so the establishment

shouldn’t try to put the word fuck back. 

Okay, Trig Coleman was called Bub. Bub knew he would be arrested if he

took up arms against the rigged election. Maybe his friends planned to take

up arms but Bub was trepidatious to join them. He was enraged about the

infringement on the constitution but he was also hopeless. The fix was in.

Nothing he could do would have any positive effect so he shot himself in

the head the night before the election. Heidi, Bub’s wife, also shot herself

in the head.

Okay, Bub was twenty-nine years old when he passed on and Heidi was

twenty-three. Their last moments occurred less than one year after their

wedding ceremony in the snow-covered yard of the Brethern church. 

Bub and Heidi loved snowmobiles so they arrived at the church in a

snowmobile. They were smiling and waving. All the onlookers were

struck by the happiness of the couple. 

The wedding was open-carry. Bub’s right hand rested on his holstered

.45 as he said his I do. Heidi was not packing although in her snowsuit

her sexual hotness was obvious and she was wearing a FUCK hat.


Months later at the joint funeral of Bub and Heidi the pastor of that same

Brethren church mentioned that maybe their happiness on their wedding

day had attracted the attention of the devil. 

The devil is always attracted when things look to be going well in people’s

affairs. 

The devil probably saw how Bub’s snowmobile repair business was starting

to take off. 

And the devil most likely also noticed how Mr. Dykstra at the bank helped

Bub and Heidi get set up in their house on Baseline Road.

Okay, it was a two-story, four-room house on Baseline Road with a yard

and a garage in the back where Bub worked on snowmobiles. The

downstairs living room and the dining room didn’t get much sun so the

young couple was often in the sun-kissed bedroom upstairs. Next to

the bedroom Bub converted the other upstairs room into his man cave. 

Bub and Heidi agreed to skip a honeymoon. There was nowhere in America

to go considering the shape America was in and they had no intention of

spending their money in a foreign country. Instead of the honeymoon Bub

got an antique S&W .38 Special revolver for Heidi which still worked. 

Okay, after they fucked on their wedding night Bub presented Heidi with

the .38 after which she sat on the edge of the bed with the .38 in her lap

like a baby. 

Bub went and got his .45 from the man cave. He then sat down on the floor

with the .45 and explained how it was a 1911 that had belonged to his Uncle

Reed who had shot himself in the head with it. 

Bub continued, “My Uncle Reed was a veterinarian but right after he got his

license he was drafted for the Korean War. There was a litter of pups he was

raising and the day before he left for the war he shot the pups with this gun

right here. When he got back from Korea he shot himself with it like he did

with the pups.” 

Bub was silent for a moment and then said, “Do you see what I’m getting at?”



Heidi came down off the bed and sat on the floor next to Bub. She said,

“Well, nobody was going to take care of those pups while your Uncle Reed

was gone. They would probably have starved to death. And when he got

back from the war who was going to take care of him if he was all messed

up in the head? It sounds like when things got bad enough he just decided

to end it all.”




After another silent moment Bub said, “Heidi, in the not too distant future I’m

probably going to shoot myself in the head. It’s because R.L. Greene will run

for president and they’re going to rig the election against him.”

Heidi said, “Yeah.” 

She too was silent for a moment but eventually she said, “I’ll do it too.”



“You sure you want to?”

 Heidi nodded yes and Bub returned to his man cave. He came back

with a box of .38 Special 158 grain Buffalo Bore ammo. He gave the

box of ammo to Heidi who placed it beside the gun which she had placed

on the floor when she got off the bed. 

No words were spoken. A silent agreement came into existence between them. 

Okay, they were horny again. There was a TV in the bedroom. They watched

porn on the TV with the sound off. They smoked weed. They drank wine.

Ultimately in the exploding union of their bodies the porn, the weed, the wine,

the .45, the .38, the ammo, the snowmobiles, R.L. Greene, and even the

rigged election kind of vaporized. Then they fell asleep with the porn still

playing on the TV with the sound off and with the guns and ammo on the floor.


Okay, as the months passed leading up to the election Bub’s inner circle of his

friends was starting to get paranoid and stuff. Bub and his friends decided to

spend the last weekend before the election at a motel in Ludington. This was

in order to get the lay of the land and decide what to do and what not to do.

On Friday afternoon Bub told Heidi that he would be going to Ludington

until Sunday night or maybe Monday.

Heidi did not ask for the details. Bub and his friends sometimes liked going off

on their own for a few days as was now the case during football season which

was also hunting season. Heidi did sense that something was amiss but she

kept her own counsel. Bub fucked her before he left and then Heidi was in

the house by herself. 

Okay, before she got married Heidi worked in an old people’s home in Muskegon.

She ran the bingo games of which there was a game in the morning and another

one in the afternoon. 

The old geezers were sort of addicted to bingo. Even though there were no prizes

for the bingo games there was excitement when the winners of a game stood up

and they got their round of applause. 

A few of the geezers were more than one hundred years old. The staff knew

who they were however their ages were kept secret from the other old geezers.

At the beginning of each month there was always a group birthday party for

whoever was born in that month but without the ages being revealed. 

Heidi’s mind drifted to the geezers as she found herself wandering back to the

garage where Bub worked on the snowmobiles late at night while Heidi sat there

and watched him as loud music played. Now in the garage Heidi noticed a sharp

contrast between the brightly colored snowmobiles and Heidi’s memories of the

geezers in Muskegon. 

The snowmobiles represented the youth and sex that Heidi and Bub now had. 

The geezers represented what was inevitably coming down the pike. It was

not only in terms of getting old but of everything in general, like how the election

was rigged against R.L. Greene. 

Okay, the weekend passed swiftly. Lying in bed and watching TV on Saturday

morning and Sunday morning Heidi observed R.L. Greene holding his rallies

all over the country. With the election coming up on Tuesday there were two

or three rallies per day where R.L. Greene was so energetic as he sang

and danced. How did he do it all?

He was fat but he was still full of vim and vigor. 

He referred to New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles as toilets.  

Sometimes he twerked!

He said “hell,” “ass,” “crap,” “shit,” “bullshit,” and when he said “fuck,” or

“fucking,” or “how in the fuck” the crowd cheered him. It brought a smile

to Heidi’s face as she lay there in bed. 

Okay, around four in the afternoon on Monday Heidi was puttering around and

she heard Bub’s truck pulling into the driveway. Then the front door opened

and Bub walked in. 

He looked the worse for wear so after kissing him hello Heidi got a can of beer

from the refrigerator and gave it to Bub. 

Bub sat down at the little table in the no-man’s-land between the kitchen and

the living room. 

He took a swig of beer and said, “Hunkpapa is a rat.”

“What!” 

“You heard me. He told the state police that we’ve got gun violence planned for

tomorrow. As soon as I heard that I got the hell out of there.”

Heidi hurriedly sat down across the little table from Bub. She took a drink from

his beer can and said, “How did you find out Hunkpapa is a rat?”

“He confessed it to us himself. His conscience got to him and he started blubbering.”

Furrowing her brow Heidi asked almost in a whisper, “Did you beat the shit out of him?”

“No. There wasn’t time for that. I got the hell out of there. Hunkpapa had went to the

state police barracks in Muskegon and had gave them everybody’s address and told

them we were planning on violence.”

After a moment of silence he added, “The cops are going to be here before long.

I promise you that.”

They stared at each other. They knew what they had to do. The time had come.

They went upstairs for one last fuck. 

Okay, after fucking they were laying there on the bed for a period of time like two

lumps on a log. No words were spoken. 

While they had been taking off their clothes they had each paused long enough to get

their guns and place them on the floor next to the bed where the guns now lay equally

quiescent as their owners.

During the coitus it occurred to Bub and it stuck in his craw that a man named

E. Talbot R. Gilmore would incredibly enough become the president of the

United States because the fix was in. Somehow that knowledge sexually

supercharged him along with the knowledge that they were going to blow their

heads off. He gave it everything he had in coitus and then he just lay there like

a whale washed up on the beach. 

Heidi just lay there too except there was a paradoxical aspect to it. While they

were fucking she had felt like it was all too much, he was too big, too powerful.

It was how she usually felt. But now that it was over she paradoxically felt that

the coitus had been too powerful but it had also not been powerful enough.

This too was how she usually felt. It had seemed too big and powerful but also

at the same time it had not been big and powerful enough. 

Okay, as the minutes passed Heidi’s body stayed perfectly still even though her

thoughts began racing. What if Bub had been a bear that tore her apart with its

teeth? Or what if she was the one who tore him apart with her teeth? What if they

ripped each other apart like maniacs and ate each other up? She wasn’t the least

bit repulsed by that, on the contrary in fact.

Eventually Heidi lolled her head over to look at Bub. 

She said, “Hun…”

He said, “Yeah, I know.”

Okay, they put a few clothes on as if it would matter to them when their bodies were

found by the state police after they were dead. No words were spoken. Heidi put

on a simple house dress. She wore no bra. Bub put on a black t-shirt and his sweat

pants that he wore while working on snowmobiles. He also held a sweatshirt in

his hands. 

They went and got their guns which Heidi got from her dresser drawer and Bub

got from his man cave. 

They sat on the floor. 

Bub said, “If you don’t mind I’ll go first.” 

Holding his gun in one hand he started to put the sweatshirt over his head

with the other hand. 

Heidi said, “What are you doing there?”

“Well, there’s going to be a mess so I’ll use the sweatshirt over my head.”

“But I want to see it. I want to see the inside of you,” she protested somewhat

seductively and with surprising vehemence. 

“Ha ha, suit yourself, babe,” said Bub. He eschewed the sweatshirt and racked a

round into the chamber of his .45. He put the barrel into his mouth and pulled

the trigger. There was a huge roar with blood and brains sprayed everywhere. 

Heidi put her index finger into some of the blood and tasted it. A lot of people

think that when a dog licks its master’s blood who has died that this is a sign

of insensitivity on the part of the dog but it may actually be the opposite, as

when Heidi tasted it affectionately.

Heidi even thought of tasting Bub’s brain but she hesitated and touched it

but did not taste it. 

With her .38 in her hand she got up and walked to the window of the bedroom.

She looked out into the night. 

Across Baseline Road a gigantic fruit processing plant was being constructed.

It was almost finished. Heidi got down on her knees and opened the window a bit.

As the cold November air rushed in she said fuck and took a couple of shots at

the fruit processing plant. She probably missed but it didn’t matter now. 

When she put the barrel of the gun into her mouth like Bub had done it occurred

to her that what if she shot herself but didn’t die? She would be a vegetable.

But anyway she pulled the trigger with her thumb.

Except R.L Greene won the election! 

       

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