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street roots
Jan. 6, 2012
Their favorite Little Boy
By Gerald A. McBreen
His father told him it was time to go.
The hour of separation had arrived.
The divorce gavel fell
And their favorite little boy
Marched off with this mother in tow
The Beginning of the End
By Valerie
This emotion that is within
It feels like sin
A lot going through me like water
My love for you is starting to fade
As my heart is torn into a million pieces
The dark hole within has soon grown much more
Imagine a pain going through you that you never felt before
Can’t believe that this is happening again
This is the beginning of the end
As he left he saluted his faithful toys
Bidding them to wait for his return
Then pressing his lips on top of his fist
He blew them each a kiss.
Little toy Batman is showing his wear
Yet proud and loyal he keeps
Battle-scarred GI Joe stands by his jeep
His rifle webbed in his grip
Is there really such a thing as “true love”?
Is there even a thing called love?
Despite what I felt from above
The darkness is rising from below
As the tear runs down my face
Each tear leaves a scar
My emotion towards you is unreachable
Like it can’t be controlled
It is harder to go through this
Why dream if it isn’t coming true?
Why live if nothing to live for?
Faithful they are to their favorite little boy
Awaiting his laughter and his joy
Batman’s cape flung with a flair
And GI Joe still standing there
They wonder in the dust of that closed off room
Whatever became of their favorite little boy
Since he pressed his lips on top of his fist
And blew them each a kiss.
As mind and body go blank
There is at least something to thank
Being hurt so many times
Starting to get used to its demands
Why put pain onto it if it is already there
Such tragic lives
No values and meaning
Wish things would go back to the way they were
Untitled
By Ronald Sanford
Foreclosures, lack of work
The machine of outsourcing is producing results.
But don’t you judge.
You may be next, groping your way through an urban jungle.
Haughty eyes have no place when your blind to me.
Cast an insult and I’ll smile back.
Save the aversions, the perversions, the presumptions, the
assumptions.
A nowhere person keeps the change
And so the glory of the world passes away
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Answers on page 6
By Cole Merkel
Crossword
Across
1. Pool shade
5. Kindergarten disrupters
10. Hang loosely
13. Moves at a speed faster than
walking
14. Breathing problem
15. Make, as a CD
16. Head criminal
18. Nitrogen-substance in
mammal’s urine
19. Malleable, ductile silvery-white
metal
20. Arm spray in “Monster’s Inc.”
22. Aurora Borealis
26. Special kind of treatment
27. Memorization method
28. Corner piece
29. Evil spirit
30. Early search engine
32. Overly sentimental
36. Shepard Fairey’s order
38. Drink glass on ice
40. Irritate
41. Iron age empire; Roman
province
43. Milan’s La___
45. “Dog Day Afternoon” character
46. “Silent Spring” subject
48. “Once___a time...”
49. For a waiter or waitress
50. Outline of duties
55. Blank
56. B & B
57. Fizzles out
58. Elevated about face value
64. Euphemism for God
65. To this point
66. Breakfast area
67. “Star Trek” rank: Abbr.
68. Be theatrical
69. Jittery
Down
1. Escort’s offering
2. Sine
non
10
11
12
Sudoku
p5
1 18
include all digits, 1 through 9, in any order.
3. Without cork
4. Buzzing
5. Lawyer’s licensure
6. Engine rotation, for short
7. Difranco
8. Part of a joint
9. Cowboy’s seat
10. Chapter of the Qur’an
11. Don’t exist
12. Tiny flies
15. Thief
17. Way in
21. Alternative to acrylics
22. Opposed to land
developments
23. Icy coating
24. Cultural values
25. Happening again
26. Six-stringed instrument
31. Cousin of a giraffe
33. Crosshead connector
34. Kansas or Missouri
35. Cry of pain
37. German dialect of Hebrew
39. Unappetizing food
42. Yemen’s Gulf o f___
44. Shenanigan
47. Sleeping sickness carrier
50. Court presider
51. Whopper topper
52. Sanctify
53. Kind of drive
54. Senseless
59. Roswell sighting
60. “Welcome” site
61. Before: Prefix
62. Canine companion
63. Wild blue yonder
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works.
So does
Street Roots.
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