From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V2 #320 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 Monday, November 8 1999 Volume 02 : Number 320 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * eda-thoughts-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY * the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: eda-thoughts-digest V2 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- ET: as poetry [shivergirl ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 23:59:38 -0500 From: shivergirl Subject: ET: as poetry ~maRtin~ such a simple name for the remarkable creativities encapsulated in the hardrive of your heart you start mixing up baby letters and their adult counterparts hugging words and making mere characters artistic visual pictures that only depart the screen unseen but felt in my bones long after the computer is shut off i am turned on tuned in feeling like the nuts&bolts you lovingly unscrew and put back together again with electronic hands clicking on my core &&&&& ~searching for the stingfish~ muscles that like to charlie-horse clinch around provocation and insult too reactionary self-survivalist for the sadist who lives to spasm the bay where all the cracked deaf shells of your past life (much-hyped strife) only perfect&mangeable through a lens filtering reality trading horizons for truth found in her feet in the sand finally on emotional ground you will never tread in boat shoes an elegant old oyster from the arrogant island that moves east with the ease of a confident conqueror stealing siren songs from the mermaid who sticks forks in the hearts of men ))))) ~along the road to recovery~ cat's eyes don't lie i beguiled him like a fascinating untamed animal he just had to touch whining when i scratched the tip of his american ego cat's eyes don't cry you're of the wild like an undomesticated hunting bear i just liked hearing you call me honey honey when you thought you could trust me i'll never admit to the trap now but you see with cat's eyes say good-bye you can be cordelia or kali anytime you like when the overweight obnoxious boar is tranquilized by a karma dart by your stare ##### ~chained to the torch~ i don't know why i persist in being a masochist why i continue to drag all my pawns to your side of the board raking my heart with a pitch-fork glowing orange coal charred memories soot dreams caught in the chimney of my mistakes smoke the grey hairs i won't ever get to see @@@@@ ~phase 666~ even now i flip through compartmentalized squares to find numbers to record the date for fucking posterity's sake something you taught me something i hate and i don't like the homework assignment this time either mr. "A" is for asshole repeat after me or write it psychotically ever so neatly in an artist's sketch book the fine-tipped pen i long to scrape along your damaged nerves endings somehow not damaged enough indigo ink stain f a d i n g %%%%% ------------------------------ End of eda-thoughts-digest V2 #320 **********************************