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Show Mark My Words Wink at Girls Chomp Cigars By Mark Kimball Yes, I am aware of the significance signif-icance of the Common Market, and yes, I want peace and yes, yes I approve of motherhood and swear to uphold the constitution. constitu-tion. Now get off my back world! Today, I am concerned not with your silly whining but with the important things, the basics which make you bearable. IF ON OTHER days I must rivet my frustration on the problems prob-lems of countries I can't even pronounce and fight your battles for you, then world, you must give me today to cultivate those pleasures that put the comedies of life into the proper perspective. I need to do nothing for awhile. I need to read poetry, wink at girls, chomp a cigar, and guzzle beer. I need to do a lot of things, but essentially I need to escape the constant lashing of a gale that is bruising my pride and insulting in-sulting my dignity. SO TODAY I AM AWOL. If anyone asks to tell him it is none of his business,, but I am out talking to Shakespeare instead of my analyst, eating pepperoni instead in-stead of vitamin pills, and solidifying solidi-fying my liver instead of my heart. You dig me world? You are a nobody, Charlie. I'll be back tomorrow to-morrow and then I'll worry about Viet Nam, the bomb, Berlin, birth control and your other afflictions for which modern medicine has no cure. ' I'll be back because those much wiser than I tell me I must, but today I will close you out and learn to love you by ignoring you. |