Street roots., April 25, 2014, Page 15, Image 15

Street roots
April 25, 2014
Here I am
by Kimberly Price
Here I am
Homeless again
I vow to say things won’t stay this way
I promise you I know this to be true
I’m taking action and gaining satisfaction
Even though it may be going slow
Every day I search high and low
Thinking positive and keeping a smile on my face
I move forward only with grace
Before you know it, we will have a home
That we can call our own
Enslavement for Entertainment
by MarlonXrump
Behind bars we see eyes expressing lifeless emotion
Chains collared to our necks as we hollar highest to the clouds;
Whips hashing our backs, we cryloudestto the .crowds
Lock them, mock them, clothe them, loathe them, cleans then d em ean them!” they say
Taken from our lands, and sealed in ships like sold slaves
Pulled into public views you call “zoos.” ;
Displaced for displays 1
Disgraceful that you assume we are playful, even tasteful as dinners at diners you pay
How dare you detain us like terrorists at Gitmo Bay?
Do we not have the civil rights you’ve all fought for generations?
Though we cannot speak, our march for freedom can be heard in our hearts
Is watching an ape climbing the highest building, then killed, your entertainment for detainment?
Caged inside with no room to roam
Chained to our necks outside with nowhere to. run .
Hunted, hounded as we flee to any land with a rising sun.
Who are the REAL animals who enslave for entertainm ent... then kill for fun?
Spring and Summer
Haphazard Professional
by William Holmes
by Peter Salzmann
poignant precision
through checkpoints, petrol stations
a sharp iron spark
active heat illuminates
another mark on parchment
In the spring it should be nice and hot out
because the sun is out and the sky is nice,
bright and blue. And the sun fills everything up.
Everybody should be outside on picnic blankets.
puzzles
Answers on page 6
By Grace Badik
Sudoku
Crossword
Across
¿ ' “Well, I ___ r
6. “__a chance”
9. “Check this out!”
13. Pal
14. Not a bikini
16. These get stuck
to you as you. walk
through the woods
17. Examples: white
distilled, balsamic,
apple cider
18. Darjeeling and
oolong
20. Bluecoat _
21. Strip of wood
23. Outback birds
25.; Pipsqueak
27. Used in fencing
28. Nature’s alarm
clock
30. Another name
for altar boys
32. Neon, e.g.
33. Length x width,
for a rectangle
35. Tribute from
District 11
36. Gifts left by a
certain elf in a red
suit
42. Moray, e.g.
43. Coastal raptor
44. Dairy farm
sound
45. Relating to the
stomach
49. Like some
exercises
51. A palm tree
with creeping roots
52. Peel of fruit
used for flavoring
54. Cheat
55. Type of acid
that can lead to
gout
56. “C’ - d a vie!”
57. Burrow of a
badger
59. More dull,
bleak, and lifeless
62. Architectural
structure used in ; '
classical
architecture
65. Comfort
66. Acronymn of a
political and
economic
organization often
countries in South
Asia
67. Mantle, for one
68. Encountered
69. Churchill Downs
event
Down
1. Catch in the adt
2.
3.
4.
5.
Australian runner
Prodigy
Exit
Civil rights activist
Parks
6. Guy Fawkes Day
mo.
7. In the cooler
8
7
6
9
8
6
8
2 5
3
9
5
6 8
2
2
3
6
4
9 7
3
2
4
8
7
2 1
8
9
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
8. Barbershop
quartet members
9. Pork and ham
producer
10. “It is only 500
feet above
„ A -
11. Predicament
12. Consumer
Reports employee
15. Hot spiceness,
picante
19. Disinfectants
22. “F or___a jolly
23. Units of work
24. Alternative to a
fence <
26. Small songbird
29. Selfish sort
31. King or queen
34. “Act your
!*
37. Amarine
mammal of a certain
order
38. Phi Delt, e.g.
39. To make
someone resentful
40. Aggravate
41. Makes a great
puppet
45. African antelope
46. Hang on a line ,
47. Ornamental
shrub
48. Atomic number
55
50.
Blunt
53.
About 1.3 cubic
yards
58. “Goodness
gracious!”
60. “Don’t ___I”
61. No longer
working: Abbr.
63. Bar bill
64. “___questions?”
include all digits, 1 through 9, in any order.