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About Street roots. (Portland, OR) 1998-current | View Entire Issue (March 16, 2012)
Street roots March 16, 2012 Once again II II By Nathan Roper Homeless once again, Seems like I’ll never win Got out of the pen, ready to submit Even when treated like a nit-wit Just failed that test of V.A. Why do they test for weed anyway? So ass-out again Keep committing the same sins Missed appointment, forgotten dates All a part of the fickle fates Winter is upon me like a curse And me with nothing but an empty purse Cold and wet creeps deep in my lungs No one listens, all I get are no’s No vacancy, no trespass Take your shit away from here Ball up your fears, stuff down the tears Get out of the way of official gears. Answers on page 6 B y Cole Merkel Crossword Across 1. Tic 6. Language of Pakistan 10. Small amounts applied lightly 14. Cry for attention 15. High spots 16. Black, to Blake 1 7 .180-degrees different 19. Hamster’s home 20. Short-range vision 21. Mar. follower 22. Bermuda, e.g. 23. Greenland sight 25. Wedding helper 26. Like some dorms 30. Caesar, for one 32. Opposing 35. Christmas hearth burner 39. African lynx 40. Rant 41. Israel’s second largest city 43. Tit-for-tat 44. Not quite the nutrient Marie Antoinette was thinking, nevertheless, en francais 46. Back talk 47. Wine-making by-product 50. Fashion 53. Kewl 54. Toned 55. Deep down 60. LP player 61. Relating to the Church 63. Data 64. Humerus neighbor 65. Render defenseless 66. Witnessed 67. Owner’s acquisition 68. Religious images, phonetically 1 2 3 4 10 5 11 12 13 Sudoku 16 14 18 17 22 20 8 4 1 7 2 8 19 5 4 6 36 37 38 7 41 3 2 9 8 8 39 6 47 48 49 56 53 57 58 59 5 60 9 4 7 6 9 2 7 63 66 iorse of sax of knot rring theme w est Indian beads jut a towel i ’ s baby: Abbr. th of cubic meters is rhythmic dance . of contempt 18. Mecca pilgrimage 24. Giant slugger Mel 25. Pitch-black 26. Play group 27. Curved molding 28. Countess’s husband 29. Digression 31. Type of transmission 33. Like a floating army 34. Open, as an envelope 36. Hot rock 37. Poetic tributes 38. Patrilineal lines 42. Subcutaneous blister 43. Stabilizing cable 45. Harmonize 47. Black fly’s family 48. German wine valley 49. Faux pas 51. Fabrication 52. Listlessness 54. Clash of clans 56. Swim’s alternative 57. UN flight safety division 58. Put in stitches 59. Shade trees 62. “Spy vs. Spy” magazine The objective of Sudoku is to fill all the blank squares with the correct numbers, from 1 to 9. Every row, column and square must include all digits, 1 through 9, in any order.