Around here we call it the Tuchuk Stomp.
Tuchuk. When it is not about the sky, the bosk, or the grass .. it's all about the Party. No one parties like a Tuchuk. We work hard and play harder. There's no age limit either. I tell ya, there's some really old boys that still can outdrink, outcuss, outdance, and outfuck me. It's good to be Tuchuk.
After the tor tu gor falls behind the horizon we start gathering around the fires and we start singin, playin whatever instruments we got, we start stompin and dancin and drinkin. In whatever order works that night.
There's a group of us and we get together when we can. Young stuff, just hangin out. We can relate even though we aren't all alike. Mezoo used to hang with us sometimes but I haven't seen much of her since she got it in her head to join the first fires. Yeah I know that was my idea. I guess I didn't expect it to take such deep root in her brain.
Ogedaii is there more now. He's cool. Might invite Sev to come around. She seems like she's got something to say. Somethin everybody might want to hear. And she doesn't seem all full of herself even though she's all up in the first fires too. And I'm talking shit about the first fires because I'm pissed off about it right now. Pei says I just need to cool my head. What does that mean anyway? People use stupid statements over and over again like they mean something when they're too lazy to actually think it through. Originality works for me.
I like people when they get their drunk on. I think it makes them better people, they're more real. Yeah sometimes it's not so pretty but it's real. I'm thinking real is better, even when it's worse in some other ways. I don't drink when I'm working. I'm not stupid, no matter what people say about me. I don't think I'm bigger than I am. They don't get me at all and they need to stop pronouncing on me before they get to know me. They don't have a clue about me. They need to talk to me. I don't have time for their narrow views, narrow and sharp and they cut things from their lives without even checking them out.
But I'm off my line of thought. I was puttin it down about Tuchuk parties. Way better subject than fucked up people puttin their fucked up ideas all on me.
I'm kinda the life of our little parties because I have the drums. I set the rhythm. Then Semi will throw down some rhyme, he's a Singer. Then it's Gabbi's turn and she does some dance steps, and oh boy can she step out. It's enough to get people started and soon everybody is joining in and throwin their own stuff out there, and it's awesome. By that time we're all greased up with paga and willing to try anything and nobody gives a shit about whose good and who sucks because it's just all for fun. The drumming, dancing, and the singing isn't about Clan then, it's just about sharing and making people feel good and help them forget the crap from the day.
