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
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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
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"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.
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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.
In ending we can only say,
"thank's Joe," for adding
another exciting page to the
annals of sports history.
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information from David Ongiri's
office in Room W-356
immediately.
Orientation for Elementary
Education student teaching has
been scheduled for February 29,
1972 from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00
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