From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V1 #138 Reply-To: eda-thoughts@smoe.org Sender: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk eda-thoughts-digest Friday, August 21 1998 Volume 01 : Number 138 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: ET: stereo typing and racism ["ws r" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:15:28 PDT From: "ws r" Subject: Re: ET: stereo typing and racism Hey there, It was kinda interesting to read Kerry-Jo's post about this because just last night, I was faced with something similar to this, and I must admit it kinda rocked my world. I wrote a poem about it, so, well, the poem isn't great, but the release writing it gave me wasn't bad... The phone rang at 10 p.m. my ex-boyfriend, my ex-bestfriend was on the line with answers to questions I never asked him "I know why your kisses were not sweet enough" he said, "I know why they fell on stone." "I know why your embrace could not hold on to me, and I went and left you all alone." I murmured, "Dear, it's o.k the past can just stay slain." "No, Dear," said he,"It cannot, or I'll never rest again. I have two lips to kiss with I have two hands to feel I have one heart to love with, And you just didn't appeal." "It's o.k," I whispered "I know the reasons you went away." "I don't think you do, Dear,"he said, "Cuz no one knows, I'm gay." After that we did some talking. We both came from a small hick town in the middle of nowhere, and recently he went to a dance (We're talking country dancing and guys in overalls and cowboy hats getting all loaded in the parking lot-sorry if you like this kinda stuff, but after living with them for the past 3 years, My oppinions kept getting lower and lower of these people in my area. (If anyone else comes from a rural area, or likes them, I don't mean to say that yours IS like this one, so no one get offended K?). BUt a lot of these down home boys who used to think my friend was a great guy found out his little secret through rumors (I had been away for awhile back in my true home town-Toronto, so he hadn't had a chance to tell me yet) and there were some *problems*. Anyway, this was something I just wanted to post, cuz it's just kinda wierd knowing that someone who you used to go out with...well, hey, Anyway, enough said. I just had to let out some things I wanted to work around myself. Thanks for listening, Sue P.S. And if anyone is interested, I fully support him. And he's still one of my best buds. "...If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond good and evil "And I don't want the world to see me, cuz I don't think that they'd understand. When everything's made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am." -Googoo Dolls "Iris" "When everything feels like the movies, yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive." -Googoo Dolls "Iris" "When Kinderman asked him why Amfortas would allow himself to die,Doctor Coffy's only answer was,"I think it had something to do with love."" -William Peter Blatty "Legion" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of eda-thoughts-digest V1 #138 **********************************