ad nauseam

Page Nine

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way back in the 1990’s, back in the twentieth century, when I made my first notes for this book, there were very few notes that dealt with landlords. it was not my intention then, or even two years ago, when I finally started writing this wee book, that I would be writing about sneaky, untruthful, amoral landlords…  until I die?

but before I proceed with the latest land-baron ulcers, let me speak for a little moment about snowflake trees, a.k.a. meadow rue. went to the canal last week and dug up two babies to plant in my garden. one has given up the ghost (this is usual. snowflake trees don’t seem to like transplanting). but the other appears to be well so far. cross your fingers for her.

to procrastinate even more before getting back to what’s supposed to be my subject for this page, I’ll say a few words about the page before this one, that is, page eight. page eight made an appearance at the trial against last year’s landlords, which trial was held on 26 april. landlady of the holy persuasion tried to have page eight admitted as evidence, but it didn’t work. one of the things she wanted to prove about me with page eight was that I have an animus against landlords. I did her one better. I admitted to an animus against all the denizens of turners trolls, not just the landlords. and just between you, me and the fencepost, in light of the things landlords in this town have put me through over 28 or so years, why wouldn’t I… or anyone else… have an animus against them?

there are scads of people who’ve been put through the ringer by landlords in this town, but they haven’t had the money for lawyers to fight for them. I never have either, until now. I’ve watched for nearly three decades as the morally bankrupt who own property here treat many tenants like second-class citizens, or worse. when you rent to low-income people who have few avenues of defense, you can get away with murder. and they often do.

that is not to say that there aren’t some pretty horrible tenants too. there are indeed. but most tenants don’t sink to that kind of extreme. many of the tenants that landlords whine about are fairly poor, living very difficult lives compared to those of their materially comfortable landlords. a lot of the tenants in this town drive me right up the wall and out the window, but most of those are not doing anything they deserve to be evicted for, or harassed, or for which they should go without important repairs to their apartments.

well now my neck hurts. will have to postpone the latest landlord lamentations for another time.

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