[5243] in Central_America
New quotes for Thu Dec 30
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Thu Dec 30 05:09:25 1993
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 05:08:58 -0500
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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marthag (Martha H Greenberg):
home address:
32 Calvin St #1
Somerville, MA 02143
(617)666-9513
alternate home # (try the top one first):
(617)666-5482
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The phone rings, it's early, it's
seven o'clock,
he says says "sorry I woke you, but I just
had to talk
You know last night, remember
when I tried to choke you?
I didn't mean it, I was drunk, it
was only a joke."
You should know that by now,
when the chequered flag comes
down,
no one no one no one has won
the race.
The next night he's over and over
and under
and after he's finished, she lies
there and wonders
just why does she need him, and
why does she stay here,
and then in the darkness, she'll
quietly say "Dear,
you've never really known
that when the white flag is flown,
no one no one no one has won the
war."
They're complicated people
leading complicated lives,
and he complicates their problems
by telling complicated lies
He tells her he's sorry, she tell
him "It's over,"
he tells her he's sorry, she says
over and over
"You've never really known
that when the white flag is flown,
no one no one no one has won
the war."
There goes a forest and there
goes a bluebird
There goes a partridge and there
goes a Go Train
There goes an angel and there
goes a steeple
There goes a cop car and there
goes an eagle
There goes a raven and there go
the ribbons
There goes a raven and there go
the ribbons
There goes a raven and there go
The ribbons the ribbons the
ribbons
The ribbons of the flag.
The Flag
Bare Naked Ladies
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sorokin (Jessie Stickgold-Sarah):
The Low Road
by Marge Piercy
What can they do
to you? Whatever they want.
They can set you up, they can
bust you, they can break
your fingers, they can
burn your brain with electricity,
blur you with drugs till you
can't walk, can't remember, they can
take your child, wall up
your lover. They can do anything
you can't stop them
from doing. How can you stop
them? Alone, you can fight,
you can refuse, you can
take what revenge you can
but they roll over you.
But two people fighting
back to back can cut through
a mob, a snake-dancing file
can break a cordon, an army
can meet an army.
Two people can keep each other
sane, can give support, conviction,
love, massage, hope, sex.
Three people are a delegation,
a committee, a wedge. With four
you can play bridge and start
an organization. With six
you can rent a whole house,
eat pie for dinner with no
seconds, and hold a fund raising party.
A dozen make a demonstration.
A hundred fill a hall.
A thousand have solidarity and your own newsletter;
ten thousand, power and your own paper;
a hundred thousand, your own media;
ten million, your own country.
It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care
to act, it starts when you do
it again after they said no,
it starts when you say We
and know who you mean, and each
day you mean one more.
--- End of Central America ---
