petroleum jelly

these things that you think you need make you a sissy-max out your credit card and trash it-throw your laptop under the bus-steal the tip jar at starbux-quit your job-give your car to charity-shop lift-quit your job-drop your insignificant other-eat an icecream cone-let go-post post modern culture aint right-you aint right-the dinosaurs thought they'd be around forever too-now we use plastic to pump them in our gas tanks

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a Surreal dialectical gameshow -by Kit Grant
flags. bugs. existentialism. slime molds. sprats (prepubescent bivalves). speeches. swastikas. skywriting. light bulbs. skeletal remains. flowers. weeds. salt. viruses. amoeba. cycad. elephants. platypus. old newspapers. libraries. incunabulum. medieval instruments of torture. rubber hose. mountains. cuneiform. pictographs. big piles of cash. coffee.haircuts. gates. old shoes. art. catacombs and lava tubes. diatoms and trilobites. snakes biting their own tail.
tyrannosaurii. sinking ships. dead enemies. drunken shrimp. dimes. gangrenous limbs. snow. roasted turkeys.heaps of cow dung. layers of dust. speckled walls. successful brain surgery. lumps of dough. left over meatloaf.red-haired kids. pitcher plants. cataclysmic events. ends of pages. bananas. amphibious creatures. metamorphic rock. glow-in-the-dark- paint. glastnost.

photo by Joe Butoh>

deep holes in concrete filled with water. angler fish. knocked-out teeth. warehouses. trumpets. baritones. things in perpetual motion. the devil.

from Pontiac Blues by Joe Carducci
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The Pontiacs always had little GM mysteries built in about them. Turn the key and just to remind you how blessed you are to own a combustion engine vehicle it would occasionally do nothing. No problem, it would start in an hour or so and be fine for months. Until you took it for granted again. Deer-willing the Aztek will last til 2012 which if i recall is the end of the world by the Mayan calendar anyway. Can't wait. Btw, there's a beautiful color pic of a GTO on the NYTimes front page today - above the fold one last time. The Aztek was discontinued last year, now the Pontiac line itself is history.



Allergy -Virgina Mongomery
"As if a blazing fire took its fiery fingers and threw me into a frigid river, this day started hot and ended cold.... still, I know how to make light of the heaviest things.", she said... "How so?", he asked. "Easy!", she replied... "Turn your mind to lost causes and know who you are among them." " Doesn't that depress you?" "Oh PLEaSe!", she exclaimed. "I was far sadder when I thought I was special."

"Alas, I do not know ...not a thing, not a nothing.... not even my self..... I wish I knew something more of you too...there is so much unspoken..." She sighs and looks to his eyes for recognition; that he might know this too; the anguish; the nothing, but his eyes are soft and adrift. " I think I left my allergy medicine at the bar", he says.

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From Ratboy, by Slag Shamshaft
Dirk had come in to set the table. "They blot out traditional music and get kids hooked on a stream of pop dribble with ever-changing titles and never-changing content," Dirk chipped in.
"Good point," Kim-Marie concurred. "The best example is genetically modified crops. By inserting some gene that doesn't belong, the agricapitalists can get a patent and 'intellectual property rights' over any plant that has that gene in it. Farmers can then no longer use seeds from one year's harvest to plant the next unless they pay royalties. Now the agricapitalists are buying up all the seed companies so that they can take non-genetically modified seeds off the market. It's
all about monopoly power."
Roger summed it up. "Money, sperm, addiction, power."
"That's right. From the beginning, capitalism has relied on addition. What was the first capitalist cash crop? Tobacco. The capitalists killed of the Indians to clear the land, shipped in African slaves to work it, then got Europe hooked on the stuff.

Next it was rum in the Caribbean. What about the Opium Wars in China? Opium is not grown in China, you know. The war was to force the Chinese to let British merchants sell to the Chinese. It goes on today with cocaine and heroin. And its not just drugs. They get us addicted on automobiles, on computer games, on television, on pornography, and of course on their sorry excuse for food."
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"Well," said Dirk, bringing out the meal, "I can't guarantee that there are no modified genes or
hormones or preservatives in my ingredients, but I do my best."
"It smells delicious!" exclaimed Kim-Marie.