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Wednesday, March 11,2009
RHAPSODY
Rhapsody is part of The Clackamas Print that gives students a place to have
creative work published, To submit a poem, short story or piece of artwd
mail it to ChiefEd@clackamas.edu or drop it by room 13.5 in Roger Rook]
“Born on the 4th of You’ll Die”
“One Voluntary Labor and Seven
Seditious Acts” (Antipoem #8) =
By: Simon Diamond
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McCain, Nixot,
Neo-Vietnam, Red Dawn,
Nothing changes,
If nothing changes.
Whitewall Tires,
And RadioFlyers.
It’s 1960, I960,
A^. over again,
All river again.
J. Edgar Hoover is on the reins,
McCarthy, Reagan, CIA,
Obama shot like JFK!
Portland is Berkeley
COINTELPRp revived,
All over again, all over again,
It’S 1960 J 960
Radio Flyers, and Whitewall Tires.
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If nothing changes,
Nothing changes.
Red Dawn,
Neo-Vietnam,
Nixon, McCain,
Agnew, Palin,
Pale-in comparison
To a Comparison’s Veil...
It’s 1960,1960,
All over again - all over again.
Palin, Agnew,.
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Snowglobe, Effect,
Dream Within, A Dream.
Watts Riots, LA Riots,
Injustice Served Injustice
Servedinjustice
L A. Riots, Watts Riots,
Dream A, Within Dream.
Effect, Snowglobe.
Psyclone within Psyclone,
Venn-Diagram, Venn-Diagram,
Take the poor to the war!
Take the war to the poor!
Baghdad, Basra,
Mr. Ahmadinejad,
Which way sir to the Hoh Chi Minh Trail?
Dan Rather, AC36Q,
Vladivostok, Guantanamo Bay,
Kim Jong-H, (Leonid) Bhreznev.
It’s 1960, all over again.
All that we’re missing:
The Selective ServiceDraft.
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Last week’s sudoku answers
By: Simon Diamond
One Voluntary Labor:
4. ) A poet, masquerading as a pro-life d
A poet self-medicates out of disgust and self-
loathing,
For being trapped in a technocratic bubble,
With apparently no way out.
cate,
Takes his pregnant daughter to a Plajj
Parenthood Clinic; •
And abandons her there for the City
Government to deal with.
Seven Seditious Acts:
1. ) A poet dresses up as a U.S. Marine and
commits suicide on video tape —
With a dying wish that the tape be sent to
both Osama B in Laden, and to
The Estate of Ronald Reagan.
2. ) ApoetdressesupasaKlansmanon
Halloween,
and drags a Jesus-impersonator, in chains,
through rush-hour traffic; singing “America
The Beautiful”.
3. ) A poet publically endorses shock-therapy
treatment for autistic children,
citing Pavlov’s Dogs as evidence.
5. ) A poet, dressed up as a homeless stu
bum, crashes an A A. Meeting —-Asking
the direction to the nearest liquor store, i
all because he was in search, of spiritual]
6. ) A poet dreams the dream of dreams'
doesnot act upon them out of fear of rep
7. ) The Ultimate Seditious Act:
A poet mutilates, her own eyes, ears to
and hands out of protest and di sgust, tow
and for humanity, so that she does not ha
deal with the injustices of humanity anyn