What's out of bounds? How far's too far? Human Freedom (a big deal in the art world) gets little respect with the religious.
Rather... Rules....
Go here. Don't go there. Listen to this. Don't say that....
Rules tend to be the "vision" for the world and it's problem... from the religious side...
But if a turn around is what's expected of me.. A U-Turn of life... based on a long list of somebody else's do's and donts... I can't do it.
It doesn't work.
Don't get me wrong. I don't say that cause I'm a bastard.. (no more than anyone else is..) It's just the way it is.
I was coming up heavy.. to a cross section of road.. approaching 11th street.... which in Tulsa Oklahoma is the famous.. nostalgic.. route 66. (America's Main Street)..
On 11th street there are buildings with architecture common of most city streets.. fast food places.. mini strip-malls..
But there are classic buildings as well... 40's/50's type.. reminiscent of the types of things one might see traveling the classic highway. Example?.. Tally's Cafe on the corner of 11th and Yale is a classic American Diner.. Sleek.. Sexy.. Red, Blue, and Yellow Neon.. 1950's sock-hop decor.
But.. like the 1950's.. (and in every pew.. in every church across this great land)... there's a whole other thing happening under the surface on 11th street.. (especially the further you get "downtown"...)
I mean that literally.. and figuratively.
If Tulsa is the Buckle of the Bible belt.. then there are places on 11th street that (to follow the metaphor).. are further down below..
...the zipper... get it..(Jimmy Swaggart?... the original open fly of the bible-belt).
As I drove north down Sheridan Rd. I passed adult video stores.. converted buildings to strip clubs.. and the occasional motel (with "movies".. and hourly rates?).
Sex. I said.
I was taken aback...
Sex is happening out here in Tulsa Oklahoma...
For Heaven's sake.... What do you do with something like that?
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