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REGRET a poem by amy ballinger I took one glimpse then swallowed you whole. I really only wanted your soul. Farther than even your emotions can hide. Truly I savored nothing In the rush, Telling my true feelings mainly to hush. So here I lie next to you, Feeling the lonely, and also the blue. Please don't take this the wrong way, But I won't stay here another day. Because no matter how much we shape and mold Our hearts will never be more than cold, And pain has taught me all that I know, And your kisses can only soften the blow.------------------------------- ![]() News | Weather | Sports | Business | Features | Obituaries Editorial | Special Interest | Classified| Home |
MICHIGAN SEEMS LIKE A DREAM TO ME NOW by archivist commando reprinted from FoodNotBombs tYpeD iN bY maRcO wHilE lis'nIn' 2 tHe WoOdStoCk alBuM [Did THE WHO suck or what???] I AM NOW IN ANN ARBOR FOR THE FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SANCTIONS ON IRAQ BUT I DON'T DO CONFERNCES, SO I WANDER, MEET PEOPLE AND DRINK TOO MUCH COFFEE... I AM NOW ON THE THIRD FLOOR OF THE HARLAN HATCHER GRADUATE LIBRARY. ON THE SEVENTH FLOOR IS THE LABADIE COLLECTION, LABADIE WAS AN ANARCHIST AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. MY HEART FEELS SURROUNDED BY VIOLENCE. THE VIOLENCE OF THE RECENTLY SIGNED DEATH SENTENCE OF MUMIA, THE MILTARY INTERVENTION/SANCTIONS ON IRAQ, E. TIMOR, YUGOSLAVIA, SO I COME HERE TO REST IN THE WORDS OF THE PORT HURON STATEMENT... (WRITTEN BY STUDENTS FROM ALL OVER THE US BANNED FROM MEETING AT THE U. OF MICHIGAN SO THEY GATHERED IN A BAR IN NEARBY PORT HURON 1962-1968) WE ARE PEOPLE OF THIS GENERATION, BRED IN AT LEAST MODEST COMFORT, HOUSED IN UNIVERSITES, LOOKING UNCOMFORTABLY TO THE WORLD WE INHERIT... A WORLD PERMEATING AND VICTIMIZING OF HUMAN DEGRADATION BY RACIAL BIGOTRY, THE COLD WAR AND AMERICA'S LATEST MILITARY ADVENTURE IN SOUTH EAST ASIA. OUR WORK IS GUIDED BY THE SENSE THAT WE MAY BE THE LAST GENERATION IN THE EXPERIMENT OF LIVING. BUT WE ARE A MINORITY... AS THE STUDENTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY (SDS), IF WE APPEAR TO SEEK THE UNATTAINABLE, AS IT HAS BEEN SAID, THEN LET IT BE KNOWN THAT WE DO SO TO AVOID THE UNIMAGINABLE. I LOOK OUT OVER THE HILLS OF ANN ARBOR AND BEGIN TO CRY OVER ALL I LOVE AND HAVE LOST... I BREATH IN THE OILY MUSTY SMELL OF OLD MIMEOGRAPH PAPER, TAPPED ON THE SHOULDER I AM INFORMED THAT IT IS NOON AND THAT THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY WILL BE C L O S I N G . . . PRESS RELEASE: ICE-T Yahoo! Chat. Go There... Returning to burn with his first album in three years "Seventh Deadly Sin," the ever eloquent ICE-T will be letting you know about his musical ventures, acting adventures & action figures. Wednesday, October 20 @ 9:00 PM (ET) B I G M O U N T A I N N E W Z SOL (Signal Of Love) just received a 40-foot donated semi-trailer that will be functioning as a container for Los Angeles based donations. The container is in a secured facility but is accessible regular business hours only. Each month the trailer will be loaded into a regular semi (also donated) and sped up to Black Mesa. Already the October run, planned later this month has 12 pallets of goods, mostly food. [I am reminded of a time when Abbie Hoffman got a couple Teamster friends to fill up an 18-wheeler with bagels and grapefruits, and guess where this "booty" ended up?] http://www.migrations.com/blackmesa/blackmesa.html http://www.solcommunications.com http://www.theofficenet.com/~redorman/welcome.html http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/kokopeli.html EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT THE BLUE PAPER TOWELS: But I'll Tell You In Case You Don't Remember. -=-the prime anarchist publisher column-=- I drive up to the truckstop after playing at a small local bar here called IQ's and three young women are at the island where you throw away your empty quarts of oil and your blue paper towels. Two of them are tending to the cutest of the three as she pukes her guts out into the island-ash-can. I pass them and go in for my late nite snack and the second thing I notice is that none of my usual friends are here. Secondly, what's playing on muzak satellite but the Northern Exposure TV theme song. Every trucker in this country right now - 3am eastern, midnite west of me - every trucker tapped into muzak.sat as their mobil ISP is listening to a dag-bloomed overfed moose walking down a small old-fashioned cityblock main street past a hardware store. The sweetest-sounding guitarist in all of Brown County just informed us all of two things. 1) their band is breaking up because he's moving to Chicago for a great tech support job. 2) Al Gore is still insisting on claims he coined the phrase INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY. Well then, this must have been the scenario: Gore logs into Infomaniack BBS at either 3, 12 or 2400 [does Al even know what a BAUD is???] and reads one of about 50 posts using the words "information highway." [Of course, he could have gotten this on more than 900 other open BBS's, I don't mean to elevate my little tenure as a SYSOP too much.] He probably tries marketing INFORMATION AUTOBAHN with no luck. Infobahn's surely his next try and a great embarrassment. Hardly anyone will take him seriously now. I probably receive an Alliance Teleconference call from someone and consensus leads to action and I probably accidentally key his # instead of Al Bell's at about 2am some Sunday catching Gore coming out of a slow steady funky Ibogaine fog; and he has to hear me tell him "INFO... SUPO... HIGH WAY, AL. 'INFO HIGHWAY,' RUN WITH IT, AL. TAKE IT, THEY'LL FORGET YOUR STIFFNESS, YOUR LACK OF TALENT, YOUR POOR WORD CHOICE. EVEN THE FACT YOU MARRIED A NAZI. ALL WILL BE FORGIVEN, AL..." "Info-superhighway Al. Take! run! Don't look back. You'll be adored. People will be speed-dialing your name." Of course Al wrote "bridge to the 20th century too." And "a chicken in every pot?" Al. One small step...? Ask not what your...? Al, I'm telling you. Homer's Odyssey, Dante's Inferno. Have you ever heard of ghostwriters? That was all Al. All day, all night. All Al. A fourth fellow runs for the blue papertowels wondering if he doesn't have radiation poisoning from events 4,000 miles away. ----====/prime/outa/here/====---- Prime Anarchist did NOT invent the internet, but WAS thumbing it back when it was a dirt road. ----====---- CLOSING THE SOA CLOSING THE SOA CLOSING THE SOA LETTUCE to: ati@etext.org As roger miller so aptly said with a slight change from moi: England swings like a pendulum do Poets on bicycles, two by two Westminster Abbey, the tower of Big Ben The rosy red cheeks of the little children http://www.netlink.com.au/~clarks/england.htm larry to ati@etext.org Some are ready. Others will follow. Join the controversy. http://www.infostry.com?source=email62 julie ...---... to: ATI re: what happened to TAP/YIPL??? fm: Cheshire answer: http://digital.net/~cheshire/tap.html ...---... Marco You should start smokin' weed again. I watched you buy two albums today, and your sale with tax came to 4.20 I was the one wearing a black and neon green skirt with a purple sweater. I smiled and said good choice, 'member? ;-) -Amanda. ps: Don't worry. I'm not stalkin' ya, I work nextdoor. [notas editoras: what are we, the Village Voice back page?] ...---... to ati@etext.org A carcinogenic crab disperses cells into the malignant sky, clattering across the galaxy, it negotiates constellations to drop words, parachuting into a hospital world of wretches: Life, Dreams, Deoxy-Ribo- Nucleic-Acid." Chris F. Alexander ...---... to ati@etext.org Check out this Page it is cool Http://natedaclown.freeservers.com has hacking, phreaking, porn, passwords, the lot. Check it out. nate ...---... Y0ur 3-zin3 5uks (anonymous) [note: a full header and a couple SYSOP emails showed this d@rling d00d spammed every single site at: http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list Thanks 4 your well thought-out opinion, mr. anon - sorry about not publishing your URL... try again] ...AFfER U LARN YORE LETRS, U WRk ON NUMMERS... http://www.phreak.org/archives/The_Hacker_Chronicles_II/radio1/fccsux http://www.go2net.com/internet/useless/useless/auto-refresh.html http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/propaganda/home.htm http://www.blee.net/ftp/pub/literature/phrack/unzipped http://www.tritarget.com/personal/brave_new_world.html http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7996/links2.html http://csf.Colorado.EDU/mail/elan/mar97/0117.html http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli/pentagram.html http://www.upsu.plym.ac.uk/~madman/newhack.htm http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/orson.html http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli/kox.html http://www.tir.com/~jtcable/lewispage.html http://www.vanhackez.com/h/guirizines.html http://www.venkiller.org/brainx/files.htm http://www.globalpeacenow.org/route.html http://www.scouting.org.za/scouts/songs http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/journalism http://www.ggnra.org/cramer/amcoup.html http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list http://www.ragbaby.com/magazine/ http://www.synapse.net/~kgerken http://www.soaw.org/Articles http://rtmark.com/bush.html http://www.johnchrist.com http://www.JimLord.to/ http://www.safka.com http://www.soaw.org http://www.pir.org-----------------------------
MY NAME IS RIVER NOLA a poem by river I am a woman of strength and courage and wisdom. I stand on my own NOT a failure or victim. The system corrupts and blinds the citizen. I rise up and discover the higher nutrition Of solitude and love and respect for the earth. Our sustenance, our life, our mother of birth. \ / An ATI Either/Or Question: As much as we hate them - they really do get things done. They take care of business, and much better than T/F or multiple guess questionaires; and to top it off "americans" the world over have come to know and love them. "Don't ask me some complex question about how I feel or what I want, or even what I'd suggest. Boil it down to an either/or and then let me decide." So here it is. Next restaurant your eating in? Make a note of the sound. Kenny G or live music? Then get back to us at mailto:ati@etext.org Now, if your answer doesn't really fit, feel free to jot down a short note and we'll either moosh it into the criterion like so many other editors and publishers, or we may just be different. Watch the next few issues for results. a) Kenny G type stuff. b) live or invigorating food for your soul. {}{}{}{} HOW MANY JASMINES DO YOU KNOW? a poem by marco Drinking Jasmine tea Eating Jasmine rice Can I help But thinking of Your smile, your humor, your smile. (A)(C)(T)(I)(V)(I)(S)(T) (T)(I)(M)(E)(S) We end ATI zine with a pome that's only slightly academic. Switching Sides by Taylor Mali reprinted from "Will Work For Peace" a Zeropanik press anthology edited by Brett Axel http://www.orn.net/~axels Typed in by prime anarchist productions. http://www.thepentagon.com/primeanarchist A subsidiary of ATI, Activist Timor, Indus. I'm writing the poem that will change the world, and it's Lily Wilson at my office door. Lily Wilson, the recovering like addict, the worst I've ever seen. So bad the whole eighth grade used to call her Like Lily Like Wilson. Until I declared my class a like-free zone and she could not speak for days. And when she did, it was to say, Mr. Mali, this is ... so hard. Now I have to ... think before I ... say anything. It's for your own good, Lily. Even if you don't, like ... It. I'm writing the poem that will change the world while Lily writes a research paper about how gays should not be allowed to adopt children. I'm writing the poem that will change the world, and it's Lily Wilson at my office door. She's having trouble finding sources, or rather ones that back her up: They all argue in favor of what I thought I was against. And it took all four years of college, three years of grad school, and every incidental teaching experience I ever had to let out only, So what are you going to do Lily? I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I'd like ... to switch sides. And I want to tell her to do more than just believe it, but to enjoy it. And that changing your mind is the best way to make sure that you still have one. Or even that minds are like parachutes: that it doesn't matter how you pack them so long as they open at the right time. O God Lily, I want to say You make me feel like a teacher and who could ask to feel more than that? I want to say all this, but only manage, Lily, I am, like so impressed. So I finally taught someone something, namely, how to change their mind. And I learned in the process that if I ever change the world It will be one eighth grader at a time. ----====---- Mali teaches at Browning school. His poetry slam team won two nationals. He's pretty well published. He's also kicking Henry Rollins' butt because the Burger King phrase "It just tastes right," or "It just tastes better," or whatever was not only written by him, but he did the first voice over. -30- (A)(C)(T)(I)(V)(I)(S)(T) (T)(I)(M)(E)(S) Shared wisdom, complaints and question marks can always be directed to: mailto:ati@etext.org-------------------------------
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