Stuck in the middle

Ahh- I feel trapped. I mean when is the last time you lived in disputed territory, huh?

I mean the other day, this like batallion of guys from D.C. came across the river in white work vans. They pulled up at the school where the soccer games were going on. They jumped out and had on uniforms. They were armed. They attacked a middle-aged corporate soccor team and called it a military victory when three guys, an accountant, a computer programmer for the restaurant lobby, and a children's book author, were laying dead on the field. The programmer was not even on the same team as the other two. They put stickers of the DC soccer team, DC United over the guys' mouths and burned the letters DC into the field.

And it didn't even make the news because DC controls the media.

But word got around and now its even worse. All of these militia guys and Civil War re-enactors and thugs have been flooding into Alexandria. They've been kicking people out of their homes, calling them queer, and telling them to go up to DC. Some people are even saying that it was these guys from Southern Virginia and not DC guys at all who came to the soccer field. Their all equally as bad and nobody can just let us be us. We like it here in Alexandria and we can't help it if we're part of Virginia or DC. Just leave us alone everybody!

Me and my boy friend were listening to Modest Mouse and some redneck called him a queer and pulled him by the hair and threw him down. Another guy peed on him. When I tried to make him stop, he swing his pee at me and another guy pulled a gun on me. I was sure they were going to rape me. But one of their NExtels beeped and a guy said "come on, turkeys" and they left.

We are truly stuck-- both sides want to destroy our way of life.