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.