street roots
April 27, 2012
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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.