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Dec. 7, 2012
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I’m Human
By Paula Ramirez
Just because I ’m unemployed
Doesn’t mean I’m a user.
Just because I don’t have a house,
Doesn’t mean I’m a loser.
Just because I sleep under a bridge,
Doesn’t mean I’m a chooser.
Just because a sleeping bag is my bed,
Doesn’t mean my blood don’t bleed red.
Rumors about homelessness,
Don’t believe all that’s said.
Wanna know the real truth?
Check out a copy of Street Roots.
Eating Bad Apples
By Michelle Grant
The food is better here, they said
The food is more interesting
In the dark places of the mind
Where one first ponders the
Availability of the fruit
Wonders that there is fruit at all
Apples or oranges or bananas
We eat like bats do,
Then we ponder organics until,
Distracted by lack of bananas,
We eat the apples - the green apples
Of unusual size
By Art Hazelwood
By Kara Dimitruk
Crossword
1
Across
14
I. Winged
6. Aesop wrote at least one
I I . Club alternative
14. Grimace
15. Portland’s __ _ Center
16. Rustic locale
17. Flu and cold symptom
20. It’s done to temptation or arrest
21. Widmer Bros’ need
22. Bake sale org.
24. Kind of life
27. Christmas decoration
28. Prophetic
31. Santa's helper
33. “Indubitably”
34. Religious beliefs
36. Throat dangler
38. Type of Illness or medicine
42. Cocoon contents
43. Wears away
45. May honoree
48. “Savvy?”
49. Age
50. Diva’s solo
52. Pulitzer Prize category
56. Set down
57. “Saturday Night Fever” music
59. Italian city and province
62. Manufacturing from the home
67. Sierra Nevada, e.g.
68. Strength
69. European capital
70. A pop
71. Doesn’t go
72. Indo-European
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Down
1. Hole maker
2. X minus III
3. Ungrateful people
4. Tooth trouble
5. New Brooklyn team
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6. _ out an Idea
7. Winged
8. Physique, slanglly
9. Soap Ingredient
10. Swirl
11. Your eyes after an all-nighter
12. Tenant
13. Uses your palate
18. Towel stitching
19. Fishing aid
22. Construction pipe letters
23. Waterproof cover
25. To smooth, in Latin
26. A log ride
29. Tennyson work
30. Pastries In Catalonia
32. Danger signal
35. Tiniest bit
36. Can. neighbor
37. Sitting on
39. [see other side]
40. Excessive devotion
41. Popular Serbian folk singer
44. Like a wallflower
45. Zany
46. Camden Yards player
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Sudoku
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47. Fellow
51. Play part
53. Harmony
54. Horse tresses
55. Common connector
58. Bozos
60. Marching band member
61. ___-friendly
63. Contracted
64. Prohibition___
65. Genetic Inlts.
66. Japanese currency
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The objective of Sudoku is to fill in 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.
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Coffee fo r donating coffee fo r
our vendors! Vendors love it
and enjoy it every morning.
Thank you!