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---------------------------- I Bleed for This? ------------------------------
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------04.06.94-----------------------------------------------------#010------
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"Jane's Addiction"
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Appreciated by Snarfblat and Jason Farnon
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Article I
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Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or
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prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or
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of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to
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petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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To the Mosquitoes,
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We have more influence over your children than you do, but we love your
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children. Most of you love them too, very much. You want what's best for
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them. Consider them when planning the future. Right? Oh, mother, father,
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your blindness to our most blessed gift, NATURE, leaves us with the
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overwhelming task of correcting your utter mess. It also proves that you are
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no judge of art, nor of beauty. We learn from you how to become ideal
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adults? There are subjects that you've passed over. Or maybe they are too
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painful to speak about?
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Nature and art-what could be more breathtaking?
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I used to wish sometimes that I was a black man. I listened to the way
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black men spoke when they spoke about freedom, justice and human rights. And
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in the way they spoke, I was sure they were speaking the truth. At the same
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time there was a faint buzz spreading to all of us the suggestion that the
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black man was not to be treated equally. For this I envied the black man
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because it gave him a passion for his living and a cause to die for.
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Would you ever have imagined there would be children swinging in
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polluted playgrounds?
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Do you have children? Do you see yourself in them yet? Do they do
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whatever you tell them to, or do they question authority? Do you take the
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time to explain things to them, or do you blame the rest of the world for
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their mistakes?
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I used to wish sometimes that I was a woman. A woman is the most
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attractive creature nature has to offer a man. Why then is it such a shame
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to see her unclothed? I feel more shame as a man watching a quick-mart being
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built. How complementary a woman is to a man! Their giving of love is
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fearless. Nature did right in tying the infant to the female. Yet they also
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carry a sense of sadness. Quite like a premonition of danger they hide but
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can't shake from their minds. I understand why they want to protect their
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children, but for their own good, let me point out though you may have to
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explain subjects to your children that you perceive as wrong, it is better to
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have the freedom to explain it in your own words than be silenced under a
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government that has the power to squash anyone who opposes their views. It
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may one day evolve to be your child that stands as opposition. Who opposes
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the faint buzz that suggests to all of us that women are beneath men. Women
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have cause to live and reasons to die with dignity. This was not always the
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case.
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Try to restrict our freedoms and we will fight even harder to preserve
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them.
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Mothers and fathers, grandmothers and fathers, great-grandmothers and
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fathers, great-great-grandmothers and fathers, you are responsible for more
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destruction done to this planet in the last one hundred years than in all of
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mankind's history combined. You've invented weapons capable of destroying
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every form of wild animal and vegetation. I am not sure what condition the
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world we are inheriting is really in. I just have a fear of smokestacks, and
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I don't trust the men who feed their flames.
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The paper these words on also contains the music of Jane's Addiction.
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The music is original, the cover is not. The original cover is as colorful
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as the music. It is a daydream of the music, made tangible. It will take
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effort to get, it is being sold, but we are having difficulties. There is an
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invisible force, the same one you have heard faintly buzzing all your life.
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This time it buzzes much louder. I myself have felt it's pain. When I
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looked down at the spot where it hurt, I saw a very small mosquito. A bug so
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old, it was known to Confucius as the "intellectual mosquito." He sucks off
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of you and he sucks off of me.
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Sometimes to realize you were well someone must come along and hurt you.
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I have grown to become proud of myself. I have aligned with all those
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who have been stung by suppression. As heirs to this planet, we must
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maintain, honor and enjoy the gift of freedom. A cause to validate
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everyone's life? Indeed.
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The world looks to America because we are the beautiful.
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