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Embracing Literacies: The Heart of the City Festiva/2012 This piece can also be found in the 'Round DTES Literacy Life on-line newsletter (Oct/Nov 2012

The Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival gearing up to celebrate its ninth year in the Down­town Eastside community. Running from October 24th to November 4th, the line-up of over 80 events--which include poetry readings, puppetry, community walks, documentary screenings, writing workshops, big band jazz, live story telling through video art, and an Indigenous Cabaret show-- promises to offer something of interest for all who attend. "'With "Voices from the Heart" as its theme for 2012, the Heart of the City Festival once again aims to embrace the diversity and cultures that are interwoven throughout the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.

Roots, Evolution, and Guiding Principles ·The festival 's roots trace back to 2002 when the Car­negie Community Centre, preparing to celebrate its' approaching 2003 centennial year, invited Vancouver Moving Theatre to coproduce a community play which later became known as In the Heart of a City: The Downtown Eastside Community Play (2003). Written by, performed by (over 80 performers !), and produced by community members involved in the Downtown Eastside, the production had such an im­pact on people that the Carnegie Community Centre felt that if at all possible they should carry on with the momentum that had been created. Recognizing the opportunity to engage the community in a way that would be otherwise beyond their capacity, Vancouver Moving Theatre also was keen to move forward. The first Heart of the City Festival thus began in 2004 with the guiding principles of embracing all art forms,

'Literacy' is one of those words that can conjure up traditional ideas of reading, writing, and school test scores . . But when the concept of ' literacy' is broad­ened to include the skills, knowledge, and confidence for participating in and enjoying our daily lives, an­other lens is opened up through which to explore ini­tiatives occurring in a community. Savannah Walling found this idea of literacies interesting to think about in relation to the Downtown Eastside community and the events showcased during the festival. '·Literacy is more than just communicating." Savannah says. "Rather, literacy brings a depth of knowing and un­providing opportunities for amateur and professional artists to develop in their craft, and bridging connec­tions between the diverse mini-communities within the Downtown Eastside.

Like a river moving forward, the Heart of the City Festival has evolved and grown. Vancouver Moving Theatre has been its primary organizer in collabora­tion with the Carnegie Community Centre and the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians. Count­less other community and arts organizations have a lso contributed to the Festival through in-kind donations and support. And despite its tremendous growth in size and attendance, the festival's values and guiding principles have reJnained cons istent, as has its man­date to promote the artists, art forms, cultural tradi­tions, history, activism, people and great stories about Vancouver 's Downtown Easts ide. Savannah Walling, Associate Artistic Director of the Heart of the C ity of Festival and Artistic Director of Vancouver Moving Theatre, reflects on how it continues to be the com­munity 's festival, and that over the years, the relation­ship between the festival, the festival staff, and the community has only deepened.

Celebrating Layers of Local Literacies 'Literacy' is one of those words that can conjure up traditional ideas of reading, writing, and school test scores. But when the concept of ' literacy' is broad-• ened to include the ski lls, knowledge, and confidence for participating in and enjoying our daily lives, an­other lens is opened up through which to explore ini­tiatives occurring in a community. Savannah Walling found this idea of literacies interesting to think about in relation to the Downtown Eastside community and the events showcased during the festival. "Literacy is more than just communicating." Savannah says. "Rather, literacy brings a depth of knowing and un

derstanding that impacts everything we do." Moving with this conceptualization of literacies,

Savannah sees the Heart of the City Festival as high­lighting disciplinary literacies such as written text, music, visual arts, media and fabrics, as well as em­bracing the culturallileracies of traditions that exist within the different neighbourhoods and within the Downtown Eastside community as a whole. The fes­tival is also a venue for exploring local literacies around history, architecture, skill-building and infor­mation sharing, values (what do we hold as impor­tant?), contemporary issues (what has led to the way things are today?), and socio-economics (how do our different incomes impact the way we live and inter­pret the events around us?). Taken together, the Heart ofthe City Festival is an opportunity to nourish interest, respect, and tolerance for all these local lit­eracies. In doing so, Savannah reflects, respect and tolerance become two more layers of literacies fos­tered by the festival.

Impact of Festival Over the years, Savannah Walling and the Heart of

the City Festival production team have observed the positive impact of the festival and associated produc­tions in the Downtown Eastside community and on its members. Festival participants have been inspired to go on and create their own plays, concerts, exhibits of various art forms, history walks, and art talks. Taking part in the Heart of the City Festival has inspired oth­ers to get involved with community boards, pursue further education, or to find employment working at other festivals. The Heart of the City Festival has led to the emergence of new relationships and fostered an appreciation and awareness of the cultures and chal­lenges within the many mini-communities that make up the Downtown Eastside. In other words, it has inspired more people to greet one another on the street. Or in Savannah's words: " lleam so much from the festival and I like being around a mix of hu­manity. The people from the community are my per sonal teachers."

The schedule of events for the Heart of the City Festi­val 2012, which includes hundreds of different artists and takes places at over 30 venues around the Down­town Eastside, can be found on-line at www.heattofthecityfestival.com .

Forwarded bv Angelika Sellick

Vigil

Seizing power in the fortress of knives and forks recanting old tales of pregnant storks Eternal, frigid mothers gather in great force Praying when served oyster sauce Heard from their wombs absurd children's outcry

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Expelled from dreams imagery into bastard consciousness Candles burning low in velveret sacristy On success' high plateau: bogus men in harness In melancholy's jaundiced heath Vermin multiply from nothingness A child holds lonely vigil at reason's wreath Old and weary too soon, mistrusting a mother's caress. Mother's still pregnant with vital lies In church rituals : matters of indifference Parental hubris shattered in a child's eye Dwarfed by the world as judged by infantile diffidence Fallen from grace, heroes are buried in haste Fearful mothers crouch behind smoky screens A child at dawn talks to scarecrows so chaste At night found drowned in muddy waters ravine Purgatory's messenger holds great promise for the proud Severance from material love equals freedom from earthly yok Immortal souls will soar in unison's dazzling cloud A debt post-morterl)settled, a new morning broke-A redesigning youth, dying too young moaned It is not God's stately mansion that I sought But my humble treehouse not adorned Paradise's earthly idyll, however wrought. In a pond's depth immortalized, a dead child's smile Summer scents but vague, painful memories, impressed on rose· In winte~s night, phantastic crystals reassemble her fragile profile A glass figurine's translucent elusive prose, In the theatre: the lights suddenly died. In Gastown a beggar plays his broken violin Snowdrifts covering footsteps with no sound Like in children's adventures we like to challenge goblins No truth is truer than wisdom in illusion found.

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gth Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival Wednesday, October 24-Sunday November 4, 2012

Artists: Top 1- r: Patrick Foley, Priscillia Tait, Mike Richter; Second row: Tom Quirk, Graham Cunningham, Rocky 0, Muriel Marjorie; Bottom Row: Joan Morelli, Carol Snider, Stan Hudac; Photo: D~vid Cooper

First voices, legendary voices, favourite voices, culturally diverse voices: the 2012 Festival is a kaleidoscope of twelve days of music, songs, poetry, cultural celebrations, films, theatre, dance, jazz, forums, workshops, gallery openings, mixed media, art talks, history talks, walking tours and a diverse array of artist showcases.

The Festival takes inspiration from the words of Downtown Eastside poet and historian, Sandy Cameron: "We need to tell our own stories. If we don 't tell our own stories, people with power will tell our stories for us, and we won't like what they say."

The festival is excited to present an abundance of artistic activity on the streets of the Downtown Eastside featuring local musicians and artists, including the Hastings Street Band, the first Festival Art Stroll to community galleries, and the new Lantern Procession of Light: Nurturing the Spirit.

Watch the next Carnegie newsletter for program highlights! For more information contact 604-628-5672 or www.heartofthecityfestival.com

The Downtown Eastside Heart of the Festival is produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre with the Carnegie Community Centre & the Association of United Ukrainian canadians working with a host of community partners.

News From -the Library Thank you to all of you who attended or volunteered

for the 5th Annual Alley Health Fair. We had a great time! The weather was perfect, the food was great and hopefully those of you who attended discovered some new resources in our community. New Books

A harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of An­gels, Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles (363.25 L71g) by Paul Lie­berman tells the real events behind the blockbuster Warner Brothers film starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. Gangster Squad chronicles the true story of the se­

cretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street comers and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O'Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick. About all they had in

• common was their obsession. So O'Mara set a trap to prove Mickey was a killer. And Wooters formed an alliance with Mickey's budding rival, Jack "The En­forcer" Whalen. Two cops -- two hoodlums. Their fates collided in the closing days of the 1950s, when late one night "The Enforcer" confronted Mickey and his crew. The aftermath would shake both LA' s mob and police department, and signal the end of a defin­ing era in the city' s history.

Warner Brothers developed the film ba~ed on the research award-winning journalist Paul Lieberman conducted for this book, which reveals the unbeliev­able true stories behind the film. He spent more than a decade tracking down and interviewing surviving members of the real police unit as well as families and associates of the mobsters they pursued.

*Age hasn't slowed down this former Beatie, nor dampened his ambition. As the most successful musi­cian in pop-music history turned 70 last June, the edi­tors of "TIME" have published a celebration of Paul McCartney's unparalleled career in Paul McCartney: The legend rocks on (781.57 M12k) written by James Kaplan

When Paul McCartney played Yankee Stadium in July 2011 for two sold-out concerts, the 69 year old

"looked as if he was having a boyish romp," said the 5 New York Times, marvelling at his 35-song perform­ance. Written by James Kaplan, author of the ac­claimed Sinatra biography Frank: the Voice, TIMEs richly illustrated book gives readers a backstage tour of the many chapters of McCartney's life: as the pre­cocious son of a Liverpool trumpet player, the "cute Beatie" of the Fab Four years, the prolific song writ-ing partner of John Lennon, the psychedelic seeker, the devoted husband of Linda Eastman, the reborn frontman of the band Wings, the shrewd businessman with a net worth of hundreds of millions, and the so-cial activist with concerns ranging from animal rights to land mines. For McCartney, the adventures never cease. As he told TIME in 2005, when asked if he would still indulge audiences with oldies like "Hey Jude": "They'll get that too, but you have to move forward as well as go back. As they say, the show must go on!".

*A very moving book, Sharp: A Memoir (362.2 F55s) by David Fitzpatrick is the story of a young man who began his life with a loving family and great promise for the future. But in his early twenties, Fitz­patrick became so consumed by mental illness it sent him into a frenzy of cutting himself with razor blades. In this shocking and often moving book, he vividly describes the rush this act gave him, the fleeting euphoric high that seemed to fill the spaces in the rest of his life. It started a difficult battle from which he would later emerge triumphant and spiritually re­.newed.

Fitzpatrick's youth seemed ideal. He was athletic, handsome, and intelligent. However, he lived in fear of an older brother who taunted and belittled him; and in college, his roommates teased and humiliated him further damaging what sense of self-esteem he still ' carried with him. As he shares these experiences, Fitzpatrick also recounts the lessons learned from the broken people he encountered during his journey­knowledge that led to his own emotional resurrection. Sharp also demonstrates the awakening of a writer's instinctive voice. With prose that is tough and gritty, profound and insightful, Fitzpatrick takes us inside his head while he manically cuts himself, but these epi­sodes are presented with a dignity and insight that has never been seen before. His writing also possesses a lightness of touch that brings humour to a subject that doesn't naturally provide it.

Megan, your librarian

V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

(Arsenal Pulp Press) is a record of this community's self-determination via the poems, stories, essays and experimental writing of 32 authors, all current or past members of the DTES community. The writers are taking turns sharing their work in events at public libraries in different postal codes. We started with "V6A in Y6A" in June at Carnegie and moved on to New Westminster in September and West Point Grey in October. Future dates include Kerrisdale, Fireball and possibly Hastings and Marpole. After each reading we have a chance to discuss ideas

with the audience and discover what we have in common and what we do differently in our lives or writing. This has been very moving, for both the writ­ers and the audience, some of whom have been mis­guided by what they have heard about the neighbour­hood. Others with their own ties to the DTES have told us that the readings have urged them to reconnect with the community.

It's the fine work of the writers that has made these readings so exciting. They are: John Barry, Elisabeth Buchanan, Wayde Compton, Henry Doyle, Daggar Earnshaw, Albert Flett, Patrick Foley, Angela Gallant, Gary Geddes, Anne Hopkinson, Jonina Kirton, Don Larson, Gisele LeMire, Robyn Livingstone, Stephen Lytton, Don Macdonald, Muriel Marjorie, My Name is Scot, Lora McElhinney, James McLean, Brenda Prince, Antonette Rea, Rachel Rose, Sen Yi, lrit Shimrat, Kevin Spenst, Loren Stewart, Madeleine Thien Michael Turner Phoenix Winter, Cathleen With.' Elaine Woo and,Daniel Zomparelli. Please join contributors and coeditor Elee Kraljii Gardiner for the next two readings: Tues Oct 30.7pm "V6A in V6M"- Kerrisdale Public Library, 2112 W42nd Ave,Vancouver, Tues Nov 20.6pm - "V6A in V6H" Fireball Branch Library, 1455 W10th Ave, Vancouver, Sponsored by Vancouver and New Westminster Pub­lic Libraries and Arsenal Pulp Press. Admittance is free. Seating is limited. www.thursdayswritingcollective.ca Facebook: Postal Code Readings -Elee Kraljii Gardiner, co­editor with John Mikhail Asfour

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Law Students Legal Advice Program

UBC law students will be holding drop-in clinics on Tuesdays from 7- 9pm in Carnegie' s Art Gallery.

It 's confidenti al and advi ce is checked with a lawyer.

Hawks Avenue

Learned a new definit ion today: gentra-fuck-ation: back in '77 Hawks & E Georgia the city was just planting the place, the row houses across the way were old, brown, falling down ... now they're dentist offices (blue) fu ll of not one Asian person

Even our house, grocers where children once bought candy and had Harley-Davidson parts strewn on an­cient hardwood; down the block was Woo's garage and the park has stayed g reen odd ly enough

Now the new wave of wou ld-be artists, tomorrow's crop of retail sales managers and facilitators at Hemp & Dodge & Co, their s illy artistic altruism discarded when the VISA card arrived.

It means the happy Asian children have been bleached, sanitised; the park is full of blonde qwai las and their all too self-centred mothers replete with strollers from Grandma v ia the ever helpful cheque in the mailbox every 1 sr of the month

the Chinese women squabble over the leftover beer \ cans, once a month the family visits from Richmond

when they find time .. I see the pain in Granny's eye { when she sees all that has gone on a street where she

was at home, print dresses in spring sunshine, and not a foreigner on her own home street

R. Loewen

FREE Pussy Riot- October 2012

The "dead-red" church in vodka-besotted Moscow Wants three vibran't young women musicians To "repent"; Not feeling selves to be "guilty", They boldly, bravely stand up for themselves! And all free-thinking, creative, political artists! But just wait folks, didn't Marx/Lenin expunge Supposedly expunge a ll o rganized religions???? Guess not! Hidebound clerics smile as 3 young Freedom-fighters do 2 years hard labour! Worldwide artists/musicians/writers denounce this! Putin's PR taking big hit right between the thighs! So fight on all fronts to free these 3; they, after all , had the guts to protest in the flesh, to do what many of you credit-card, couch potato, internet junkie Readers only think or dream about doing!

John alan douglas

Looking Ahead

To the fall Mason jars of salmon, venison Arrive by mail Having travelled hundreds of miles 'Cross land and water Packed securely by my g randmother's hands

My little sister refuses the veal It had been her pet a ll summer Butting its velvet head against her In the stall I enjoy the tender meat

A bit later another package arrives from the farm Roger's hide now tanned and dry Rusty brown spots on white fur A cozy mat for our bedroom floor Gloria steps gingerly around it Remembering him, I suppose

And the beat goes on as the smoke rises from the leaves burning in the yard

This year and every year this t ime ...

Wilhelmina Miles

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Early morning sun shining spritely on the still wet grass All things are possible now Five seagulls appear to snatch the crusts of bread 1 toss Not really hungry They compete to hone their skills

A lone crow hangs back -a fledgling New to the world outside his nest Wary of bigger birds- their aggressive beaks' long reach He knows there will be crumbs left After the gulls have flown away.

Wilhelmina

Word On The Street (WOTS) is a very popular

reading and writing festival that is held every year

during the last weekend of September. The

Carnegie Community Centre had a table at WOTS

again this year, where we sold The Heart of the

City: The Best of the Carnegie Newsletter book, a

spoken word CD by Bud Osborn, These Are The _ Faces music CD, and gave away issues of the Carnegie Newsletter and Help In The Downtown

Eastside pamphlets. As with any festival that

offers a wide variety o f choices of things to do and

see, it can be difficult to draw people to your

display. Well over 200 people visi ted our table.

We owe this success to the library worker from the

Carnegi e Library who accompanied PaulR Taylor

and myself during the festi val. "Miss Crestfallen"

invited passers-by to help us create a real-time

dictionary of words that begin with the letter "C".

Colourful pens and sheets o f paper were available

so that participants could write down their

favourite C-word and add it to the book. We had

candy and small prizes, including magnetic

Scrabble letters, to g ive away to our guests. As

you can_ see by the above photo, it was a lot of fun!

Respectfully submitted by Lisa David

10th annual Hope in Shadows Calendar The energy was palpable in the Pivot office as we

rushed around this morning getting ready for the awards ceremony at the Carnegie Community Centre. When the doors opened, the theatre began to fill with anticipation as residents and project supporters gath­ered together to watch their neighbours, friends and family receive their awards.

There was one small technical glitch, a bulb blew on the projector. But project coordinator Carolyn Wong, always the picture of grace under pressure, kept the ceremony going as Katrina and Andrew walk through the aisles like a pair of Vanna Whites, displaying the winning images from their laptops while we waited for a replacement to arrive.

Photographer after photographer shared the moving stories behind some of this year' s top photos. But the highlight of the morning was when the cover of the 20 13 calendar was unvei led. Photographer Amy Wilson was called to the stage to

accept her first place prize. Her daughter, who won an honourable mention of her own today, joined her on stage. Amy was overjoyed as she recalled taking the winning image, which she called The Never Ending Friendship.

She snapped the phots:> of herself and her best friend Shannon with 'the last frame on her camera as a keep­sake for the two of them, never expecting it to win. They wanted to commemorate their 12 years of friend­ship and their journey together raising their children in the Downtown Eastside. On top of parenting duties, Amy volunteers at the

Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House and par­ticipates in a mom's group at Crabtree Corner. Amy loves the calendar because it spreads the word about all the great things that are a part of her neighbour-This year, in honour of the project's l Oth anniversary

Carolyn invited each of the top 40 photographers and photo subjects to sit down with her and reflect on the future of their changing neighbourhood. When Caro­lyn invited me to take a look at the transcripts, I was overwhelmed by the sheer depth of wisdom, elo­quence and clarity of vision contained in those pages.

I invite you to join us as we celebrate this milestone. See all of the top 40 images, meet photographers and calendar vendors, and celebrate 1 0 years of commu­nity empowerment and socialphange at this year's {:!ope in Shadows Exhibition

E DOR T INING SESSIONS

FREE CALENDAR TRAINING SESSIONS

To become a vendor you need to attend a training session. You'll get a legal vending permit ~ for the calendar + one free calendar to get you started. Vendors buy each calendar for $10

and sell them for $20.

Interurban Gallery 1 East Hastings St.

Wednesday October 3, 1 pm Friday October 5, 1 pm Tuesday October 9, 1 pm

LifeSkills 412 East Cordova

Friday October 12, 1 pm Monday October 15, 1 pm Wednesday October 17, 1pm

Please note: sessions are one hour and limited to 16 people. Sign up on the day, 10 minutes before the session begins.

For more info call: 604-255-9701 ext 136 or visit 121 Heatley Ave. (at Alexander)

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DEAD WORLD 7Wl$71NG

How do you enjoy being landlocked to the country voted most like ly to be the most hated to ever grace this third stone from the sun we call our own, -the typical American animal called man distances him self from the less fortunate as much as he can they trade and buy and even sell souls even the meat off the bones .. ifthere is a Devil well there it thrives from mass executions to convenient mass suicides his only concerns are his image and cashflow as another coun­try not paying its debt begins to disintegrate, he sets minority against authority then hangs out long enough to make sure the innocent will pay for their entire lives where today he will bring fire and then shazam he is gone to see wo is next to obliterate, he knocks countries down like bowling pins that devil somehow always wins knowing full well the U.S. will glad ly be the wrecking ball, intimidation and humiliation are his ebb and flow their Intelligence is a rhetorical joke when another piece of Earth goes up in smoke that devil dances with glee he is not even willing to share private jokes until he has it all. So many soldiers hanging from unseen strings they will be told who to suck dry when the schoolbell rings as another GI Joe and G I Jill will never return, like a Lindsay Lohan photo line-up she is the one posing & exposing now people like you could wind up is living a pathetic existence the only bloody thing you ever learned, with role models like OJ Simpson and Char­lie Sheen all rolled into one remember you are in the states pull one of your many guns there are people right now taking bets on the next city to host a massa­cre don· t hold your sanity in let it ring out the best sound is s-i-1-e-n-c-e loud enough to wake up in an­other inner catastrophic fall ... Tear down those Master Race country clubs with their 2 mistress minimum, remember to guzzle responsibly as sad members fall as leep with their zippers open and their alcohol-drenched tongues, why wait for e lection time to become so appalled, these people use c redit cards like the rest make do with their food­stamps then when the former hits the latter with thei r $80,000 car it' s the driver whining about stomach cramps one guzzle too much shithead go phone your personal lawyer who may as well be a piece of our family, stupidity can be paid for it has its price but pump ing out more people whose job will be the next

war can't anybody think twice one dictator is born every 15-20 minutes every single second 2 victims're brought into this Insanity America is by no means the only culprit every part of this globe hates someone else and is willing to send lots of other people to what will be their final breath ­as I've said if there is Intelligent Life in this universe they've left us to destroy ourselves and we are very efficient at what we do Whole civi lizations disappear then Mr America shows up to announce their coast is clear, as for us we've been booked into the Captain George Vancouver suite conveniently located at the bottom of the sea and what a view, like overstaying your welcome in your comfy Smithrite your screams go off in your head where else would they go as your begins to get ttght ­mankind's predicament is sort of the same except in­stead of one person it is one world we all live on and for; the real problem is that we are all addicted to War the reasons don't matter abolish those that preach peace as the government cleanses its personal whores One disease at a time is all that can be dealt with do you really wonder why people take their own lives?? They fear being murdered by old age, but everyone dies and that is called fate (yes I have gone to sleep with happier thoughts). People are killed in broad daylight but no one saw a thing as sudden bouts of blindness and amnesia it new heights even law-abid­ing people lie through their teeth get them to tell the victim's family the culprits will be caught, someone once said that no matter how the next war starts the one to follow it and once again tear us apart will be fought with sticks and stones. Biologist E.O.Wilson says warfare is built into our DNA (could this be the reason brutali ty will never go away?) like if the Uni­verse were murdered the Earth would be suspect number one, just one planet, ours and ours alone like a sale at Walmart if all the walls that have been put up and those that have been torn down your enthusiasm is as encouraging as finding a missing person face down, when embers are all that we have we' ve really got to start listening, if we don' t it's a shame because we have no scapegoats but ourselves to blame and that my friend is the beginning of one world twisting

By ROBERT McGILLIVRAY

"Life is the art of drawing insufficient conclusions from insufficient premises." - Samuel Butler

September, closing in on Hallowe'en ( ·'

the Soft autumn sunshine sometimes ,., \' ';~li ~ .J.·~'·.·~tiit'~ leaves me infinitely sad, knowing .' , ;-

winter is coming, the inevitable long nights ~{1.:;.:-, ~."'. our time here is so short ,:· '};&-, one fall morning you're running home . .1U·'.~ff'" throwing your schoolbooks on the bed, ·., •. ·~ ;tS" the sweaters shed · !f..:';'~~( ... r-3 ~ you grab the football and join ~. e ::r'' . ·:) all yer screaming pals in passing ~~ ~: M 1

bashing each other - no tackles- ; >,\!'1: • t I . ~, i ~/ yoU< bru;sed ch;nb~~:~;~;eal~;~ens ,_W,.,. ¥1S;,.'.,;;';~ .. : as you race home to supper screaming .,,. '·•·f· . ,.. ~, ...... with joy and mad young fever < :. :,. t<(i~:: ~ ,., ; soon enough it's your own kids slamming the door rushing on and out you can talk to them but you got to shout ain't that what it's about growing up and going out

The Eye of the Beholder

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Was a beautiful day all sun and gentleness in the wind walking up Hastings just had to reach out and say

'hey mama sure is a beauty day' was surprised at what she had to say, she sez ' the day ain't the only thing that's beautiful' she smiles as she walks away.. I'm flattered as hell the round faced girl made my day nice to turn a head no matter what the calendar say But then again this white blank pressures me into sitting for an art class for free ego got the best of me so I foolishly agree What turned out was not what I had in mind -a portrait like Lenin or some other Russian dude so damn ugly it was outright rude guess it all depends on who's lookin" at what you got coo kin' this divorced art teacher let out her own bias saw me as a demon with a pointy chin made me feel ugly as sin

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The Game

My friend Paul tells me that trials and tribulations are just tests we are put to to see what metal we are made of If that is the case then maybe I have failed the test of tolerance .. I've run out of brotherly love See Whitey ain't necessarily white all the t ime Sometimes the nemesis comes in shades and hues That surprise you? Leave you not knowing what to do? or who to blame for the run-around game the endless runaround getting nowhere game Being pushed to the breaking point seems to serve these devils just as well as putting you thru hell just to provoke you; to joke you; poke you until something snaps .. breaks inside you do something you can't take back simply put, pushed to the point you attack

People will do you, screw you in every possible way so your day is as screwed up as the game they play Some folks just take their leisure gives them real pleasure is making you~ miserable as they seem to be pushed to the point of violent insanity push you so close to the edge till you lose your head and someone ends up dead -this is the game

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