Pag4 8 PAUSE: IT’S ALL IN A CARTOON by Michael Patti There is a certain part of the earth, which by nature, only my own, we haven’t seemed at all to discuss, the city and life at its finest. Why, just think of everything that’s there. Yes! It’s all right outside of your cardboard illusion, take the top off and try to look to see the sky from the pavement, maybe even a few trees, and green grass of the capitol lawn. I stop and rap with a squirrel, he runs up, and all he sez: Right on, with his fist raised to sky above his head and mine. Things were not well at this point, but not all is always well. Just yesterday the city streets, the buildings, the noises, the people took on a strange perspective, and spoke profusely of their goods, others less obviously involved in the total makeup of the picture, spoke of the ills which seem to have beset us all. The play was a plight of a play, a mockery of parody with true cynics delight. Easing forward on the bench to observe the tension, a light beam through the trees caught me for an instant and radiated my presence--it smiled as though nothing were wrong. It’s evident that the course of events is well placed in the tabloids of the past, only to have their truth reckon so. . .only now the squirrel feints and ploys along the ground through some faring blast from a tarkus on the street below. The squirrel’s deafness muted the raucouity to a mere chewing on peanuts. The gladiators now storm from their doors, an elevators, and quarters. They’re all out in search of that daily lunch time activity. Beastial flights on fantasy, pushing and shoving, biting in terror, afraid and unknowing, EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Winter-Spring of 1972 WILLIAM PENN MEMORIAL MUSEUM, Harrisburg, Penna. Through February 6, 1972 Prints and paintings by Linda Plotkin of State College, Penna. Sculpture (Pictorial Participations) by Roger Shipley of Williamsport, Pa. February 19 through March 12, 1972 Scholastic Art Awards the best of junior and high school art in Central Pa. March 31 through May 14,1972 Paintings of Western Pennsylvania by George Hetzel April 9 through May 14, 1972 A five woman show of paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture: Florence Putterman, printmaker, from Selinsgrove, Pa. Dee Blumenthal, painter, from State College, Pa. Wendy Snet singer, photographer, from State College Jean Osborn, painter, from State College Mary Cady Ruebenstein, sculptor, from State College and only knowing the boredom insanity of their tarkus, mechanical live’s. Here we are, shut off from me and you in retroactivity. Our space flights have taken us from many forms of our own, and some, we might not know what we are, but surely back to the point of the city. . .We stop and think a minute while waiting for a walk light. Meanwhile, eons advances through time warps, stopping and catching his breathe a moment in a lovely wooded forest stand. Studying the area momentarily, he immediately started to rap to his immediate moment. Not forgetting to record it well; as a grain of sand slips from his fingertip, a snowflake falls and crushes to a waiting guagmire of it all. The moment passed, angular momentum overcomes its own impetus, ownly to find himself off at a hurried pace once again, overcoming his own inertia to remain constant. Burnin’ off like a paranoic muth’ fa’, drivin’ that train blasted out and drunk on acid. Buzzin’ by the windows along a narrow path beside this white-striped black snake, Dynamic Printing brought to you by A and P, brought to you by Heller’s Appliances, brought to you by Grace Evangelic Church, brought to you by US Post Office-West Branch, brought to you by Grandson’s Bar and Hotel, brought to you by Herndon’s Gas, and Eons passes thusly. . .The light changes and we cross the street, findin’ ourselves still alive as the traffic races madly behind us. Stay stoned for more details. . .Well this is all very interesting, the passing events and such. Freaky Frank admits to eating a thanksgiving dinner of meatloaf at Kresge’s; Billy Greenstar seems to be floating in a sea of forgotten teardrops; and new year’s day was spent stungout for food and cigarettes. The day was no less interesting, due to the excellent stash, which produced hungries in demand, I Attention: The Bathtub Race Is Coming! Semi-Annual Clearance Sale 2IK-M% on All Winter Merchandise *De *V