[5271] in Central_America
New quotes for Sat Jan 22
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Sat Jan 22 04:27:55 1994
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 04:27:28 -0500
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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dollette (Ms. Cori Dollette Peele):
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mhpower (Matthew H. Power):
trying to solve the Mishloach Manot distribution problem in polynomial time
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rajjy (Rajeevan Amirtharajah):
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sorokin (Jessie Stickgold-Sarah):
The Moon Is Always Female
Marge Piercy
II.
I wake in a strange slack empty bed
of a motel, shaking like dry leaves
the wind rips loose, and in my head
is bound a girl of twelve whose female
organs all but the numb womb are being
cut from her with a knife. Clitoridectomy,
whatever Latin name you call it, in a quarter
of the world girl children are so maimed
and I think of her and I cannot stop.
And I think of her and I cannot stop.
If you are a woman you feel the knife in the words.
If you are a man, then at age four or else
at twelve you are seized and held down
and your penis is cut off. You are left
your testicles but they are sewed to your
crotch. When your spouse buys you, you
are torn or cut open so that your precious
semen can be siphoned out, but of course
you feel nothing. But pain. But pain.
For the uses of men we have been butchered
and crippled and shut up and carved open
under the moon that swells and shines
and shrinks again into nothingness, pregnant
and then waning towards its little monthly
death. The moon is always female but the sun
is female only in lands where females
are let into the sun to run and climb.
A woman is screaming and I hear her.
A woman is bleeding and I see her
bleeding from the mouth, the womb, the breasts
in a fountain of dark blood of dismal
daily tedious sorrow quite palatable
to the taste of the mighty and taken for granted
that the bread of domesticity be baked
of our flesh, that the hearth be built
of our bones of animals kept for meat and milk
that we open and lie under and weep.
I want to say over the names of my mothers
like the stones of a path I am climbing
rock by slippery rock into the mists.
Never even at knife point have I wanted
or been willing to be or become a man.
I want only to be myself and be free.
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
241. Use the whole can of starter fluid on the charcoal.
242. Hold the elevator until you have finished your conversation.
243. Scrawl your signature on important documents.
244. Take your colicky baby to the movies.
245. Hand out your business cards at funerals.
246. Have belching contests in restaurants.
247. Clean your ear with your pinky.
248. Let your blind date know she isn't up to what you were told.
249. Make the same mistake twice.
250. Pee in the swimming pool.
from Life's Little Destruction Book
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