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street roots April 27, 2012 15 1 1 1 Haiku By Duane "Rick" Wagner Portland Cat Rooty Is dormant on Shanghai steps The wet sidewalk yellows. « In the December trees Blinded by the gallowing fog The white bottle screams. Under sun shines so brightly A sturdy man displays his The baker in the store. Dull Point Blues By Mike Vance ............................ Black shadows of loneliness and despair Are hanged like rotten wet socks From every powerline and traffic light Down here. Every grave is dopesick And trembling with anticipation For one of us to get sucked up Through the cotton And into the reapers of a dirty right So that death can get well. occur By Rob Patrasek Portland Cut your fucking puppet strings! Get hungry for anything better! Now! Office Cat Rooty says thank you to everyone who came to our open house on April 19. It was great to finally meet all the folks who support my vendor friends. Thank you! embrace pgiueui diversity w w w . p o r t la n d h e a r in g v o ic e s . n e t Answers on page 6 By Cole Merkel Sudoku 7 2 Crossword Across 1. Sugar molecule 5. Dress (up) 8. Dry lake bed 13. Burn balm 14. Estimate follower 15. Grackly breaths 16. Volcano flow 17. Pepsi or RC 18. Quartz variety 19. Pays d’outre-mer containing Tahiti 22. What you used to be 23. Paddle 24. War on______ ; courtesy of the US government since 2001 27. Down Under bird 29. Bursae 33. Bay window 34. Future fungus 36. Lingerie item 37. Genuinely comfortable with oneself 40. Bit of business attire 41. Archaic alas 42. The 1% 43. Word repeated after “Que,” In song 45. Charlie Brown exclamation 46. “O h ______ 1998 Neutral Milk Hotel song 47. Colonial Indian mail system 49. Land-owning Romans 50. Offsetting actions 58. Wine-making byproduct 59. Long, long time 60. Delhi dress 61. Mediterranean nation in the British Commonwealth 62. Aquarium 63. Axis o f___ 64. Uses 65. Unspecified number 66. Pursue 1 7 4 6 2 1 5 8 7 6 9 5 4 3 3 8 1 1 9 9 4 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. Down 1. Young seal 2. Controversial apple spray 3. Controversial Bush staffer 4. Like Jack climbed? 5. Figure of speech 6. Nobel Peace Prize city 7. Good shot 8. Sanskrit solar energy 9. Rock Bottom’s Swan Island or HUB’S Czech Pilsener 10. Word of woe 11. Abominable Snowman 12. Between ports 14. 20. 21. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 30. 31. 32. 34. 35. 38. Earthy pigment Spiny, cylindrical cactus Complimentary close Racetrack tipsters Bert’s bestie Stage item Historical period Brother Overhead Draconian Flippant Welsh tear Sounds reflected Chance occurrence 39. 44. 46. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. Short syllables followed by long As stamens attached to petals Metallic sound Book of maps Indiana’s state flower Summer haven Face-to-face exam Wrinkly fruit P ro___ Average All-night party Lake near Niagara Falls Wormy scarf material This woman works. So does Street Roots.
