Thai's Beside The POMI or Ring of Heads by Samantha Bower It's snowing Let's go outside and throw snow all over each other And make snow-angels And pretend that it's not snow it's, uh SAND-seashore, sun salt waves. Lying on your back feeling waves snow washing over bodies and stones and just being Being wet with saltwater Being wet with snowflakes Just feeling all wet and slick and shiny sunshiny Seagulls-seashells-snowballs angels, soft-shelled crabs--soft shelled minds I was looking at Caroleetha's ring and started thinking about an album called "Ring of Hands", by a group called Argent. The song that gives the album it's title is concerned with a celebration in which people get together and form a ring of hands together. In a class the other day, we were talking about alienation and how we personally feel about it. Someone started a ring of hands in our class. And suddenly we weren't just separate individuals but a ring that expanded outward to include everything, a celebration of being that lasted for maybe just five minutes. But our class is still mentally holding hands. If you drop something, even just a thought, into a river of humanity, it forms rings, and more rings, and just keeps spreading. So spread your own celebration. Hold somebody's hand even if it's just with a smile. Now here's a celebration-- Free Parking Players. All we're trying to do is share the results of a bunch of people getting together and getting off on each other's heads. And maybe we get off so much sometimes, that we're hard to follow. But that's all right, too. We talk about things that interest us, and that should interest you, too. It's free, so if you can come and park with us. We'd dig it. One of these days I'm going to die. And when I do, something very definite is going to happen to my body. It's going to decompose. And worms are going to eat it, and grass is going to grow from the chemicals that it will form. And maybe a bird will eat the worm, and then some small part of me will fly rg 1,113011540911014MK0K11N1UM1110 16 MIBIIMINKSMOBIONGSIMIII I 8.X.. v j PG Village Dry Cleaning and Laundry I Olmsted Plaza Rt. 230, Middletown Professional Dry - Cleaning & Pressing Returned the same day 1 11 Laundromat Hours 1 Mon. thru Fri. Sat. 9 AM to 5 PM Lavemeggat through the air and walk on wires and become feathery and _fluid motion. And maybe some cow will eat that grass, and someone will eat the cow, unless I die in India, and some of me will walk streets and talk to people and maybe even think. And maybe, if my body feeds a certain kind of grass, someone will come along and pick me and roll me up and smoke the shit out of it. Far out. And then thatpart of me can float around inside somebody's head and just groove on a totally different way of thinking. But naturally, or I should say, personally, I don't think that any particular sense of self or ego extends beyond one life. That if there is consciousness, it will be born again in another body. So if I won't be aware of my next life, why can't I fly now, and let somebody smoke me and take me into their head. Why do we have to think as human beings all the time? Try thinking like a bird, just try. I did it once before, just to see if I could do it. So I let my head drift up and perch on a limb. And then I felt hungry, so i flew around 'til I found an apple. That's when I realized that beaks don't pick up too much food at one time and that it takes a lot of pecking to fill up your stomach. Then I got tired and it was getting dark; so I found a nice depression in an enormous limb of a tree, and tucked my head under my wing and waited for sleep. But it started to rain, and I couldn't sleep well, so that's when I found out that when you are a bird, and you're not in motion, there is no mental activity whatsoever. You just sit there and see the rain, with no associations to think about and no way of planning for tomorrow. You just sit there and watch the rain. And I, Samantha, thought that, really, it might be really nice to be a bird. "Do you wanna be a bird?" P.S. Thanks Marlowe for holding my hand. Talent Show Want to join or help? Call Carol Sms: 944-5658 or Brenda Colston: 944-5340. Rehearsals start Feb. 22nd. Be there! if in before noon 9 AM to 1:30 PM Sun. 10 AM to 2PM g 11011111MAIMMISUlla RUNNING FROM THE GRAND ENNUI "If it's not one thing, it's another," is what my good friend MSP (sounds like a food additive, doesn't it?) said when he thought he was going to be busted for murder, and I guess he's right. Life does try its best not to be boring, but what we come up with is different. Sitting in an apartment in uptown Harrisburg, drinking beer and watching television with a kind of quiet desperation, our sole entertainment being the propagation of a clean drunk, and the performance of sexual perversions upon cockroaches and roof rabbits. Maybe, if you're lucky, there'll be a fire or a murder or something, and everybody'll go stand around, folding vulture wings and saying how horrible it is. Did anybody get killed? But there's always something, like the wino last nite who hit us for some change. •He claimed that he was a World War II and Korea vet and kissed our hands in thanks for our having given him a quarter and half-a-dozen ICE BREAKING CEREMONIES The first annual Ice Breaking Ceremonies of Capitol Campus were held on February 7th on an obscure pond near Olmsted Plaza. Heading the ceremonies was Joe Byerly of 826-B Nelson Drive, Meade Heights. Joe, who began and finished the event in the space of ten seconds, managed to plunge through the ice with the finesse any Olympic Baseball Club All men interested in joining the Baseball Club, please contact: Robert Stanley, Rec/Ath. Building (787-7751); Dennis Conn, 820 B Weaver Avenue (944-1711); Andrew Oronzi, 846 B Kirkland Avenue (944-1622). Please register before February 28, 1972. Thank you. \ I I/ SALE:7 1 1\ Large Group of Ties —99 c VALUES TO $6.00 Group of Sweaters 1/2 SLIPOVER & COAT STYLES Price WE NOW STOCK U.S. KEDS the Finest In Men's Wear pennies. Makes you feel pretty small. Right now I'm listening to an endless rap by a very opinionated lady 'bout what's wrong with women's liberation. Yesterday, she was viciously (and equally endlessly) attacking the Berrigans. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." And I go to work every day (I'm a very Good Worker) and I come home every night. Had a snowball battle last night. Sometimes I think of the fancy bicycle I'm going to get, or of the fancy pictures I should be taking, if only I had a darkroom. Is there a party this weekend, or do you want to go out for a few drafts? But mostly, we just sit, drink beer, watch television, with the sound off, and listen to music: " ... I heard a voice inside me scream, It said, you lost the light And now you're running through the night, Running from the Grand Ennui." —David Phares by Mike Welliver skater would envy. Despite a small turnout for the event, spirits were high and water temperatures were low as Joe Readily testified after regaining consciousness. This is the first year for the event and according to Joe it may be the last unless he is able to thaw out in time for next year's ceremonies. Joe, relatively unscathed by the events of the evening, has vowed to start a new program for unusual sporting events on campus. He is currently seeking participants for the spitting team and the towel snapping club. 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