[5214] in Central_America
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Sat Dec 4 04:00:08 1993
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 03:59:20 -0500
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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ckclark (Calvin Clark):
the legacy of maggots is wings
Joy Harjo
the struggle of the fly in marmalade
Yeats
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dmt (Dennis M Taylor):
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jharvey (John A Harvey):
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kdmiller (Kenneth D Miller):
void main(){char b[17];int a=0,c=0,d; /* / for a good time, email: \ */
while(c!=-1){printf("%07x0:",a++);for /* ( kdmiller@athena.mit.edu ) */
(d=0;d<16;d++){c=getchar();b[d]=(c<' ' /* \ (Kenneth D. Miller III) / */
||c>'~')?'.':c;printf( "%s%02x",d&3?"":" ",c&255);}printf(" | %s\n",b);}}
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mmlee (Mark M Lee):
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6A Program with Intel Corporation, 1994 (BS & MS)
MIT IBM PS/2 & PC Users Group Team Leader
Term Address: 1586 W. Maggio Way, Apt. 5-1039
Chandler, AZ 85224
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sgw (stephen g. wadlow):
Terrapin Station
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Inspiration move me brightly
like a song with scents and colors
hold away despair
More than this I will not ask
faced with mystery's dark advance
statements just seem vain at last
Some rise, some fall, some climb
to get to Terrapin
Counting stars by candelight
all are dim but one is bright,
The spiral light of Venus
rising first and shining best
Oh! from the northwest corner
of a brand new crescent moon
crickets and cicadas sing
and play a different tune: Terrapin Station
in the shadow of the moon: Terrapin Station
and I know we'll be there soon
Terrapin! I can't figure out
Terrapin! if it's the end or beginning
Terrapin! but the train's put its brakes on
and the whistle is screaming
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sorokin (Jessie Stickgold-Sarah):
Martha
by Audre Lorde
(continued)
III.
It is the middle of August and you are alive
to discomfort. You have been moved
into a utility room across the hall
from the critical ward because your screaming
disturbs the other patients
you bedside table has been moved also
which means you will be there for a while
a favorite now with the floor nursess
who put up a sign on the utility room door
I'M MARTHA HERE DO NOT FORGET ME
PLEASE KNOCK.
A golden attendant named Sukie
bathes you as you proposition her
she is very pretty and very gentle.
The frontal lobe governs inhibitions
the damage is after all slight
and they say the screaming will pass.
Your daughter Dorrie promises you
will be as good as new, Mama
who only wants to be Bad as the old.
(I want some truth good hard truth
(a sign of youth
(we were all young once we had
(a good thing going
(now I'm making a plan
(for a dead rabbit a rare rabbit.
(I am dying goddammit dying am I
(Dying?)
Death is a word you can say now
pain is mortal
(I am dying for God's sake won't someone please
(get me a doctor PLEASE)
your screams beat against our faces
you yell
begging relief from the blank cruelty
of a thousand nurses.
A moment of silence breaks
as you accumulate fresh sorrows
then through your pain-fired face
you slip me a wink.
Martha Winked.
IV.
Your face straightens with impatience
with the loads of shit you are handed
`You're doing fine Martha what time is it Martha'
`What did you have for supper tonight Martha'
testing testing whoever passes for Martha
you weary of it.
Those you must straighten out
pass your bedside in the utility room
bringing you cookies
and hoping
you will be kinder than they ever were.
(Go away Mama and Bubie
(for 30 years you made me believe
(I was shit you shat out for the asking
(but I'm not and you better believe it
(right now would you kindly
(stop rubbing my legs
(and GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE.)
Next week Bubie bring teglach
your old favorite
and will you be kinder Martha
than we were to the shell the cocoon
out of which the you is emerging?
V.
No one you were can come so close
to death without dying
into another Martha.
I await you
as we all await her
fearing her honesty
fearing
we may neither love nor dismiss
Martha with the dross burned away
fearing
condemnation from the essential.
You cannot get closer to death than this Martha
the nearest you've come to living yourself.
(June-August 1968)
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
311. Bite your dentist's finger.
312. He who has the gold rules.
313. Remember the Sabbath and sleep late.
314. Worry your mother.
315. Pick your scabs.
316. Change horses in midstream
317. Let the crumbs fall on the floor, and the chips where they may.
318. Get up early and take your neighbor's newspaper.
319. Drive like a cabby.
320. Point out mispronunciations.
from Life's Little Destruction Book
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therese (Therese):
There is a deeper wave than this
Rising in the land
There is a deeper wave than this
Nothing will Withstand
I say love is the seventh wave..
-- Sting
Dream of the Blue Turtles
--- End of Central America ---
