welcome to monsanto! show me your dream world!!!

Read Pleasant Gehmans fond  recall of Monsanto and tell us where you've been or where you'd like to be, what's the world look like. In your wildest dreams and hopefulling wishing whats the world look like where you would like to live! 

I used to dream of a post apocolyptic road warrior type mess, where everone stank and looked hot and fought over water or gas! Now i wanna live in the old school future fantasy of tomorrow world!

 Monsanto

The Monsanto exhibit at Disneyland

was apperently one of their first

back in the day before Anaheim was such an urban crush

back when all there was to the Magic Kingdom

was a space age mono-rail

a few whirling tea cups

and the powder blue stucco walls

of "Its a Small World"

it's countenence rife with fifties-style clock faces

Monsanto was about the wonders of the future

it was a conveyer ride

you got in these little pods, private capsules

and went on a dramatic odyssey through a single

fiber of polyester

or something

there was a huge cheesy eyeball as you rounded a bend

and a booming voice like "Mr. Wizard" explaining

that you'd actually shrunk to sub-miniscule proportions

and were being viewed by a scientist through the lens

of a high-powered microscope

yeah. right

a little later on, there was a large styrofoam snowflake

dangling on nylon cord, most of the glitter it had been covered with

had worn off

these were the two landmarks

usually the only two things anyone noticed

because Monsanto was synonomyous

with drugs and sex

just say the magic word, Monsanto

to anyone who grew up in Southern California

during the sixties and seventies

and a fond, nostalgic  look will come over their faces

and they can remember their first kiss

or hit of windowpane

or the last half of a pint of Southern Comfert

or splitting a qualuude

or sweaty, ten minutes of unbridled

teenage lust

with someone you met in line for the Matterhorn

the first maniac twinges of LSD laughter

Monsanto was definately the place

all deals were transacted

the places relationships were nearly consumated

the place drugs took hold

the place the one-hits you took in the parking lot

kicked in for the duration

it was the one place the Disneyland secret police

couldn't see into

or at least, thats the way rumor had it

Monsanto was probably the single most decadent place

in Southern California

for those in the Twenty-one and under age group

evryone has a Monsanto story from those glory days

before Space Mountain

before Capatain EO

back in the days when Disneyland was trying to be

more than a themepark, but a fun educational experience

and so many learned the ropes in the darkness of Monsanto

we had it down, man

we knew just how many seconds it took to

finish off whatever you were doing

before the ride rounded the last bend

and spit you mercelessly into the daylight

Not too ong ago, Disneyland was trying

to streamline and modernize

as is their wont

and they tried to get rid of this huge talking statue

of Abraham Lincoln

public protest was wide and loud

everyone wondered how Disneyland could be so harsh

so thoughtless as to remove a landmark like old abe

finall the powers that be, ain The Happiest Place on Earth

had to relent-they left Mister Lincoln standing where he was

even though most people pass him by without a thought

but Monsanto

Monsanto they just razed without an uproar at all

or at least ther was no public outcry

one day it was there in all it's atomice age

streamlined, hyper-space, worse for the wear

impossibly out dated tacky moderne grandeur

the next it was gone

didn't anyone remember?

didn't anyone care?

How could the get rid of Monsanto?

For a little hile, the implications were terrible

heads shook in disgust

monsanto was high art

it was kitsch

it was low camp trying to be utterly serious

it was like a secret clubhouse known only to a few hipsters

it was a closely guarded secret

that will, in this day and age of high-tech gloss

super-special FX and neon art directors scrawls

never ever happen again

Monsanto said alot about the baby boom generation

what the general public thought went on

and what really happened

Monsanto; like all good things

gone, but not forgotten.