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Show Page 8 TOBE A POET NEIGHBORS Kids Up late Kisses, hugs, loves, Dirt, sand, wet diapers, Mothers day gifts wrapped funny Dandy lions, neighbors roses, snotty noses, Can we have a drink of water, We are late for school we over slept. Phone calls, records play, fight, dance, laugh Grandchildren come to play, love in the air. Marie Darling / brought you a plate Of warm gingerbread And you stopped Arranging furniture To make two cups _ Of instant coffee. Down the road are several shacks, Dry rot eating them like a cancer, Holes in the roof big as a fist Paint gone forty years, Windows without glass Door without a knob. POEM FROM A DESERTED BEACH Three hearts without hope. Kid playing in the mud Dried-up grandpa on the porch Mother in the doorway wearing rags That damn rat crawls under the house. Inside ; : If you Cannot hold me And lift my heart Above the lonely Sound of the sea We stood More than obvious Strangers Near some threshold Of coming together Three straight back chairs And a fine, sturdy table Broken framed picture of some Kennedy Mother fixing dinner now: Black-eyed peas, turnip greens A little fatback (after all, it’s Sunday) Mother walking through the mud, — Taking a few greens to Mrs. Jones Then | will Return To my mother The earth. Eileen M. James After all— Over and beyond Old tradgedies We never made. Loves Lou As great as the joy in love can be. So is the sorrow in loneliness. Patrick J. Pizuto ie Bill Hedrick Lord said to share your blessings After all— 3 Old lady Jones didn’t have a good week. Responsive Reading If we say it here in this rat-filled hallway, Processional A new day will it be the same? is here Grease and prints of forgotten fingers parade down the walls, if our lips form the words will they be swallowed up in shouted curses and approaching sirens? Will they splinter and fly— clinging stickily to the dead brown ceiling and absorbing the smells and sounds and sadness? I will say it— at least let me determine why I will shed tears. You must say it after me Don’t wait! Quickly before it is lost and swallowed and gone Quickly— . I love you. REPORTER INQUIRING The individual has the right to choose his role without interference question is not one of equality. It is a question of freedom. from society. Bland Gale Ortega fault. the roles of man and woman should be defined as father and mother. An individual woman Do you find the double-standard unfair to women? Institutions and individuals will expect certain things of her and here is where the conflicts arise. Yes. Women should be free. The comparison have sexual that women should freedom because men have not should it, is have the it because point. They The it is their virginity double-standard what ‘is good for the goose is good for the gander. Still I’m not ready to give up the little nicities | receive for being a woman. can do whatever she wants to. If she is » pressured by society, it is her own by Julie Fox femine identities. Within the family political and techniqual language is over the head of the woman in the kitchen. Barbara Draper Brad Yes. In what areas do you find Womens Liberation a valid cause? In equal jobs women deserve equal pay. | also believe there should be nationwide abortion reform. However both sexes should maintain their masculine and | and yesterday is too long ago to remember. We march together and our muffled footsteps make the dusty earth tremble beneath our advancing steps. The time for memory _ and regret is over. Tomorrow is opening like the dawn before us | and we march with determination and faith toward its bright promises and silvery dreams. We march foreward, and only our footprints behind us make imperfect ridges in the shifting soil. Judee Williams In double-standard and demand is a myth on the right. The organized Women's males part. | dig women’s lib. Liberation Movement is attempting: However, | disagree with agressive to threaten mens masculinity. The and strong arm tactics. Also the areas is Womens Liberation a valid cause? | don't think the organized groups are good because they make men Fred Wilson what the enemy. It is not a valid cause if it alienates the sexes. ‘Chery! Jensen I’m all for equal wages, fulltime Day Care Centers, and legalized aD Orton: As for “ttre In would the Chicano find contradictory. culture Women’s Society us to want more whereas before content to be housewives. girls Liberation has than we women mothers taught need, were and Tony Parra |
