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Walden Pond Condominiums says
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Come enjoy your individuality
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With us. Dial 1-900-NEW-GURU.
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Calls are just $35 a minute.
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Ask your parents B4 dropping out.
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(OPINION) - PAWN
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MainStreet, USA. Here at the new Prime Anarchist World News Tonite
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headquarters -- Oshkosh, WI -- I believe with all my heart that
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63 year old Bob Denver (known to most as Gilligan) should N O T
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be thrown in prison for the rest of his life for having a pound of
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organically grown, paraquot-free Mexican marijuana mailed to his house.
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When people like me, who don't even smoke pot anymore jump to
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Gilligan's aid, you can take this as EXCATHEDRO-GOSPELLIC
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truth-in-all-absolition fact: Our Justice System Has Cancerously
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Grown Into A Mockery Of Its Very Own Self.
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I, Prime Anarchist, await its crumbling, of its own stupidity,
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waiting, awaitingly, with sated breadth.
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AAA TTTTT IIIII activist
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A A T I terminology
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A A A 1 T 3 I 1 inclusionary.
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A A T I issue 131. June begins us.
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A A T IIIII
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Hola, and welcome to the hundred thirty first issue of P.A.P.'s ATI.
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Activist Timor's Incredible.
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I'm Prime Anarchist and this is my humble rant for Sonday, February 131st,
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1998. We have lots of stuff here, as you can see. Plenty of submissions
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came in last week and some turned up from the week before. I now wonder
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how many University of Connecticut might have lost on me. Oh well, if you
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don't see your stuff this week or next, send it again, I'm not ignoring
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you; I'm just deft. It's official, Bill Clinton has dedicated Henley's
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Walden Forest. I'm glad it happened mostly. But I must say I have a little
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trouble hearing Thoreau quotes from a man who likely spends more money
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on condoms than I make per year in gross income. But as usual we suffer
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the need to take the bad along with the good I guess. So there, I give
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you ATI131. Happy summer reading. Oh, and tell www.amazon.com that you
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want one of each, and you'd like Prime Anarchist to get the commissions,
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ok?
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-------
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POSSESSING THINGS
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You want something, you possess it - and by possessing it,
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you lose it. -Chris-In-The-Morning-
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------- (anyone remember northern exp...?)
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Dream Truth 2
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a poem by Joy Reid
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Dreams purge
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and so
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you surprise me, you odd utilitarian object
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what are you doing in my dream?
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The walls ooze filth in subterranean colours
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the room's a crypt
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imbued with disease
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yet somehow
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I must purge myself
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clean with this vile, bristled thing.
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The object lies
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smug and knowing
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had it an eye, I swear it would wink.
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Still, I place it in my mouth
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grapple with an urge
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so violent
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my dislocated self asks why
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why do this?
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It is then
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another enters
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another
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somewhat like me
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she raises brows
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in fierce speculation
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'you deserve better,'
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she informs and leaves.
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ATI - All The Fits That Print; We News...
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/prime
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/anarchist
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/productions
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/#'s
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/run
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(brought 2 U by the letter 'p.')
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http://www.telepath.com/believer
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http://www.decemberwind.com
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http://www.swaves.com
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http://www.summercon.org
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http://www.beograd.com/truth
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http://www.hrichina.org
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http://www.hrw.org
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http://www.freedom.tp
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-----------------------------------------------------
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ACTIVIST like issue brought 2 U
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TIMES water 131 by
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INC for chocolate, was RC Cola.
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-----------------------------------------------------
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Wildman Bill Klinton told this joke Friday at a National Press Club
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Luncheon. I wonder how his evening followed...
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A man was rapidly growing tired of his wife's constant habit of
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saying "just a sec"... "just a sec" every time he tried to get her
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attention. He felt like he was always on the back burner with her.
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One night, he called to his wife who was in the other room and was
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greeted with the usual "just a sec" response. He completely lost
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control and yelled at the top of his lungs, probably loud enough
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that the whole block could hear, "I'm so sick of this!
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No More 'Sec's!!!!!!!!"
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Immediately realizing what he had just said, he then shouted,
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with equal volume, "Well... maybe just a little bit more!!!!!!"
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-------------------------------
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ATI IS LIKE MENTAL FLOSS.
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-------------------------------
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This one was forwarded to me, so I e-forward it to you
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here. You e-heard it, (BAM... BAM... BAM...) first.
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A PRAYER TO THE GLOBAL CORPORATE GODS:
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O mighty global corporations, we are helpless without you. Please bring
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your menial jobs here to our nation and town. Though we have little
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control over these arbitrary and tedious jobs that create wealth for
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stockholders rather than us, they are all that we lowly workers deserve.
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Grant us your x dollars per hour so that we might have hope of
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purchasing your fine plastic products that bestow lasting contentment.
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Forgive us when we question your authority or do not work fast enough,
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for we are but wretched servants, and please oh pretty please do not
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cast us onto the street where there is much weeping and knashing of
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teeth.
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Drive us to serve you ever more diligently until our decrepit bodies and
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minds break down, then patch us up in your hospitals and with your
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anti-depressants as much as necessary to return to your service. And
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when you have used us up completely, secure us in your nursing homes so
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that we do not annoy you or your still-faithful devotees further.
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O corporate one big happy family Fathers, some of us are so worthless
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that our skills do not match your product plans, and our resultant
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poverty has led us astray to where we have broken the righteous
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commandments that protect your bountiful property from us. Other
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backsliders have foolishly attempted to escape the indoctrination of
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your dollars through the use of mind altering substances. We accept that
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the only rightful place for these shameful sinners among us is in a cold
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cell of thick concrete deep within your prisons, where you will still
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mercifully grace these human by-products with a few quarters per hour to
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manufacture your office furniture.
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For those few hours when we are not in your service, thank you for
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blessing us all with the security of predictable name brand products,
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and for their copious packaging that assures that no heathens have laid
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their unclean hands on the wondrous gifts within. Continue to spew your
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intelligent poisons into our farmland and food to protect us from the
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sinister insects and microorganisms. Prepare our food and even serve it
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to us, that we may have more time to serve you. We will gladly consume
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whatever you hand down to us, for you are all-knowing.
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Please pacify us with a plethora of prefabricated entertainment, as we
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have forgotten how to entertain each other. Reveal to us through your
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inspired media what we are to believe, for surely we cannot trust our
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own feeble judgement. Similarly commodify any remaining life activities,
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so that our angst-ridden existence is no more challenging than a series
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of multiple-choice questions.
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Most important, guide your wise politicians financially as they strive
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to make this region of the planet more cost-effective for you by
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abolishing the evil worker rights laws, corporate taxation, and
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environmental protections that offend you deeply and drive you away from
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us. Help them enlighten the more backward cultures by dropping your holy
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bombs on the people of those demonic nation-states that still refuse to
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bow down before you.
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And thank you for undercutting the pitifully small local businesses that
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would dare defy your divine dominance and threaten the sacred homogenous
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culture in which you have safely wrapped us. Truly all resources belong
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to you, and we are but humble stewards of them. Continue to devour the
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land and excrete into the rivers --- the Earth is your banquet and your
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toilet. For thine is the empire, the power, and the planet, until you
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destroy it.
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Amen.
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Copyright 1996 BiggerTheyCome (TM) Enterprises, a wholly-owned
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subsidiary of GlobalGobble Corporation. Just try and steal this
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intellectual property, you peasant, and see what happens!
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ATI - All The News That Print, We Fit.
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From: JBuck22874@aol.com
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for <ati@etext.org>; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 17:30:07 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Submissions/J.Buck
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Message-ID: <6312b682.35786361@aol.com>
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X-Status: Read
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X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 62
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Dear Editors:
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Please consider the poems posted below for publication in an up-coming
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issue of _ATI_. If you would like a short bio, just let me know.
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Thank you for your time and effort in reviewing my submissions.
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Janet Buck (e-mail: jbuck22874@aol.com)
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The Totaled Farm
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Motion<EFBFBD>s blessing disappeared.
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The trees were gone like ghosts
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that someone tapped too hard.
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Wrathful grapes in puddles
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where a pasture slept.
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Dry, dry twigs like dregs
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of Lipton<6F>s Onion Soup
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in envelopes of nature torn.
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All was couched in noise of progress
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promised like a dozen roses.
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Steeples of a haystack once,
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the metal bombed and then removed.
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The "Displaced Person" wasn<73>t people;
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it was seeds of cheerful flowers.
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All the "trumpeters of Spring"
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were fallen soldiers in a bunker.
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The totaled farm was painted over
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by a tar and gravel road.
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Blue Jays crying acid tears.
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All the bounty clouds had kissed
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had turned to boards upon a truck.
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These were blessings once removed.
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Clipped by urban scissors rusted.
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Justice only showed its face
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when they were cleaning up the mess.
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Sticky treads of caterpillars
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almost drowning in the mud.
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The Absent Part
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The galaxy of city life.
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Mice that bolt and scamper quickly
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running from the wind in faces.
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Four-lane rushing to a job.
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Obligation<EFBFBD>s curlers set in
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tresses of emotion<6F>s head
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that might have felt the silken wave
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of brushing out a moment<6E>s hair
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like kittens in a child<6C>s lap.
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On the Evening News at night,
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I heard the list of rapes and murders.
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Stocks were slipping on the market.
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Neighbors never borrowed sugar.
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Tractors sat without a farm.
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Motion with its plastic covers
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weather-proofs the heart from aching.
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Clouds above the earth are lost
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and no one waits for anyone.
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D.C. traffic in a stream.
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Slamming heels with grocery carts.
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The absent part, the people roots.
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I lived there for a year at least.
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No one ever asked my name.
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We were all like peanut shells
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beneath the feet of destiny.
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The elephant was urban strife.
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The ivory tusks piano keys
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that sit and suffer in the quiet.
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Listen for the human touch.
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It quivered but it never came.
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The Crosswalk
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Syllables were evidence
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of gravel in the microphone.
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Cold, hot sweat in rampant urges
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water-colored all the curtains.
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Steam was special, awful private.
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He would have a sacred way
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of lifting up admission<6F>s veil.
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Inward going at a pace
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that spelled his faith in
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tenements becoming gardens.
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Summer shorts and negligees.
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Very granted, easy horses
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only normal women ride.
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She would put them on alone,
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barking as a puppy does
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when someone goes where
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they cannot and opens doors
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that should be locked.
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Hers were guarded gates
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respected by the rose
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in glasses waiting.
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Scars were thorns and
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fate was guilty of a tunnel
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carved in assonance of eyes.
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The crosswalk was a poem of sorts.
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Shifting gears. A magic clutch.
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Traffic grew for forty years
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and this a summer tied to dawn.
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He would know when it was safe
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to lay the velvet of his love
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in drapes around the urns of pity
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no one else could ever touch.
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by Janet I. Buck
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And here's another one by JOY REID; called
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ROO SHOOT
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(typed in from a C: by prime anarchist because of difficult
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technicalities. ATI, overcoming odd greatnesses for over 10 years)
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Star pricked sky
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like a tin roof leaks light.
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Yellow moon howls,
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strobes between the trees
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slow stalking.
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Chink, chink
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a metallic whimper
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chink, chink.
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Follow
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and if burrows gape
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plant steps wide
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until
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white javelin
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spotlights the pasture,
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eels through clumped thistle
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finding
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conch shell feeding
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gum leaf guarding
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shapes transposed.
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A boom.
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The moon recoils,
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cordite swirls, a conjuror's trick.
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Yanked,
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a roo leaps back
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the rest slip moorings,
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scatter like pullets.
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The scene blinks out
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we
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chink, chink chink, chink
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forward
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towards dark threshing
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where torch and three of three will combine.
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Envio
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a poem by Alfonso Quijada Urias
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No pretendo sino que algun dia
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el dueno de la pobre pulperia
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haga de mis escritos
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los cucuruchos de papel
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para envolver su azucar y su cafe
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a las gentes del futuro
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que ahora por razones obvias
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no saborean su azucar ni su cafe.
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(ed note: accents wouldn't go in full-text.)
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***
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YOU ARE WATCHING; ATI
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***
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NOTAS MUSICAS section is short today. No parodies, and no
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originals to publish. Get them sooner or later here.
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For now we have this:
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Has anyone heard the song "Counterfeit," by Limp Bizkit?
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Me either.
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Good.
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"Somewhere, Alan Freed is laughing," says Southern Connecticut
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copyright lawyer Mark T. Gould in a recent Soundwaves magazine.
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Thank you for reading this column. That will be 50 cents.
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NOTES FROM INSIDE AN ELECTRON by Yak Atom.
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I don't care about the Y2K bug. Bring it on. I'm refusing to
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stress one bit about it. If tech plods on past 2000 I shall keep
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writing HTML, basic, Unix, VB, etc. If not, I go back to pad and
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pencil. Why, I've been using technology AND notepads since Janet Reno
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was knee high to a congressman.
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No fear man. To risk misquoting Hunter Templeton Stockson,
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"It just can't possibly get weird enough for me."
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Yak
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And while we're doling out quotes, here's a WS Merwin that I
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particularly like. (as if there's anything Merwinish I don't...)
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"You die without knowing
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whether anything you
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wrote was any good.
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If you have to be
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sure, don't write."
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As is the tradition, I'll end with a Prime Anarchist Original
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Poem. This PAOP brought to you by the Vatican Council on
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hemp shower soap. (pope's dope on a rope soap)
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. Send all contributions, contrasting contradictions,
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. corrections and cohesive camraderie to:
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. ati@etext.org
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. primeanarchist@thepentagon.com
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. or:
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. marco99@juno.com
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.
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. letters to the editor go to:
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. editor@intst.com
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.
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. music notes go to:
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. lutenist@geocities.com
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.
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. poetics go to all of the above!
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This is entitled Rice Pudding.
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(c) tomorrow. by marco
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I'm peeling potatoes for Sonia
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While I await my rice pudding's finish
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(she's cooking for 35 people)
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It'll be done about "fivish."
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Sonia's is timed for just before six.
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Jalapeno pizza and some kind of potato stix.
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I'm cooking for one
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But I'll share with any
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Of the 35ish when it is done.
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///Thank you for abusing AT&T///
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