From: Terrius@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: Who cares?
Date: Thu Jul  7 22:16:59 1994
M o d e l   C i t i z e n
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First impulse was to ridicule
the old man in the lingerie store -
lusting after clothes
with no people in them.

Second thought made me hesitate
for I can even fault myself -
lusting after bodies
with no people in them.

-Tb

for those of you interested, the poem "Defense of an Art Form" is about an 
"intellectual" trying to defend drug use by comparing it to art.  Organic 
impressionism, he calls it.  And shrugs off the side effects as no less 
moral than having an illness.  a curious effect in this poem is that if 
you take the first letter of each line it spells "Bits of me Dying"  
(Note: not THIS poem as in the one in THIS message, but as in the one a 
few back.  Always remember - convolution is the essence of intelligence - 
and the government is a genius)