dangerous gift

whale vertebrae gift
   but he informs me
      I'm now a felon

-Bill

hayden on hippies

"...now I know all of you just want to return us to the cave-
But I have news for you!  We've already returned to the cave- we just drive them around now."

-Tom Hayden, Alameda Park, Santa Barbara, 1979

Bert J

"forty years of buzz
         turned his liver into was"

mattingly quote

"Who can beat Obama?
Any mammal that can file--

What about Republicans?
      there's the rub--
Every one's a reptile"

when it's OK to kill

"...There's a consensus that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill.  If you kill inside the country, you get in trouble.  If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal."

-Joan Baez

"you can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake"     -Jeannette Rankin

new year's haiku

"tell me again,
why do we want the blue guys
to beat the red guys?


-tricia on football

conversation

I got indignant
After I asked him
Where he was headed

After he put a wad of bills
In my hand
Repaying my loan--

"Going to Heavenly, Dude
For some snowboarding"

But it's all manmade snow this year,
It's fake!

"Dude" he replied,
"I'd get shot out of an elephant's ass
If that's what it takes
To have some fun--"

-for Dan Sweigert