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The whole project is hip, anti-academic, the poetry of reluctant grown-ups, picking noses in church. An enjoyable romp! Though also serious.

Nick DiSpoldo, Small Press Review (on Children, Churches and Daddies, April 1997)
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the July 2004 installment of...

Children, Churches and Daddies

Volume 137, June 22, 2004

The Unreligious, Non-Family-Oriented Literary and Art Magazine
ISSN 1068-5154
the 11th Anniversary Edition

Statue at the Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Oahu, Hawaii).

Editorial

I Pledge of ... What Do we Pledge our Allegiance to?

Randolph Street Exit, Chicago 2004

Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico 2003

Tiananmen Square, Beijing China 2004

flags over a bridge in Puerto Rico, 2003

Paris 2003

New Orleans

Listening to people talk on AM radio about the Pledsge of Allegiance recently, I’ve started to formulate my own opinion. There are those who want to eliminate the line “Under God” from the pledge, that this leads some to believe that the United States does not stand for Atheists or people who don’t believe in the same god ss the ever-pervasive Christian God. But I’ve always thought that if that were the case, then Atheists should be against our money (“In God We Trust”???), or for that matter be against the people who founded our country (even though they did not an imposed religion, they were for the most part quite Christian people...). I always thought that This is the way the opledge was written, and we should honor the way it was created.
Then I found out that the Pledge of Allegiance did not include references to God.
I read Joe Hertel’s editorial in Northeastern Illinois University’s newspaper (v20 issue 16) INDEPENDENT. Hertel wrote “The worlds ‘Under God’ were added in 1954 to distinguish us from the Godless Communists” ... so I realized not to make judgements until I actually research something. So I decided to search a little more.
I learned details from a a short story by Dr. John W. Baer (from http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm):
Francis Bellamy (1855 - 1931), a Baptist minister, wrote the original Pledge in August 1892. His original Pledge read as follows: ‘I pledge allegiance to my Flag and (to*) the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.’ [ * ‘to’ added in October, 1892. ]
In 1923 and 1924 the National Flag Conference, under the leadership of the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution, changed the Pledge’s words, ‘my Flag,’ to ‘the Flag of the United States of America.’ Bellamy disliked this change, but his protest was ignored.
The Story of the Pledge of Allegiance states (at http://www.flagday.org/Pages/StoryofPledge.html) that: “On Flag Day June 14, 1954, the words “under God” were added. The last change in the Pledge of Allegiance occurred when President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved adding the words “under God”. As he authorized this change he said: “In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America’s heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country’s most powerful resource in peace and war.”
This was very nice of Eisenhower to assume our future allegiance to his God (though I’d like to know what our “spiritual weapons” are...).
Dr. John W. Baer also noted that Bellamy “had been pressured into leaving his church in 1891 because of his socialist sermons. In his retirement in Florida, he stopped attending church because he disliked the racial bigotry he found there.”
So ... one can only guess that Bellamy would not have liked this change, either (especially considering that he even stopped going to church).
I don’t know if it is proper to “change” the Pledge of Allegiance back to it’s original form. I understand that Amendments are added to the Constitution to make it better; maybe I’m missing the argument that keeping “Under God” make the Pledge of Allegience better. But reading the words of the group to Restore our Pledge of Allegiance (at http://www.restorethepledge.com/), I felt I might not be alone. They state:
“Currently there is a legal drive to remove those words. “God” in the Pledge has caused the divisiveness, discrimination and exclusion that the Framers specifically sought to prevent. Yes, the majority of Americans believe in God, and they nearly unanimously find no objection in the Pledge’s current rendition. But that is precisely why we have a Bill of Rights - to prevent tyranny by the majority, and to protect the rights of minorities. Our Constitution forbids government from endorsing religious views, and those who choose not to believe in a deity should never be made to feel like “outsiders,” as is now the case.”
“The words are “liberty and justice for all.” The Pledge should be a unifying experience for every citizen. Placing a religious ideal into its midst is not right, and serves no purpose except to alter a purely patriotic tradition into one that satisfies the religious bent of the majority. That is exactly what the First Amendment was written to preclude.”

— Janet Kuypers, Editor-In-Chief

The Power of Government Should Not Be Used to Promote Ideas

Conflict over Pledge of Allegiance illustrates both the Right and the Left’s hostility to freedom

By Robert Garmong

In refusing to rule on the merits of Michael Newdow’s challenge to the Pledge of Allegiance, the Supreme Court attempted to stay out of the “culture war” between the (religious) Right and the Left. The American public has no such luxury.
Michael Newdow, an atheist, argued that the Pledge’s reference to America as “one nation under God,” constitutes governmental establishment of religion. The Bush administration countered that the pledge is “a patriotic exercise, not a religious testimonial,” and should be allowed.
This might seem to be a trivial case. But as part of a “culture war” between the Right and the Left, it has taken on an ominous significance. Both sides have demonstrated naked hostility to the independent mind: the Right, by its desire to force school-aged children to profess religious belief; the Left, by its demands for governmental support for secular ideas.
The First Amendment established what Thomas Jefferson termed a “wall of separation” between Church and State--a deliberate break with the then-standard European practice of establishing an official church by governmental edict and supporting it by taxes. The purpose of Church/State separation was to protect the right to disagree in matters of religion: to ensure that the power of the government would never be used to force a person to profess or support a religious idea he does not agree with. Government officials may make whatever religious pronouncements they wish, on their own--but they may not use the power of the government to promote their ideas.
On religion or any other topic, an individual’s ideas are the matter of his own mind, decided by the application (or misapplication) of his own rational faculty. To force a man to adhere to a particular doctrine is to subvert the very faculty that makes real agreement possible and meaningful, and thereby to paralyze his mechanism for recognizing truth. The kind of forced “agreement” obtained by governmental edict is every bit as meaningless as was the Iraqis’ “love” for Saddam.
Yet it is precisely this kind of forced agreement that the political Right seeks, through its support of religion. The Pledge of Allegiance is a perfect example: in 1954, when Congress replaced its original language, “one nation indivisible” with “one nation, under God,” then-President Eisenhower expressed pride that “millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty.” This can only mean the attempt to demand religious agreement by the power of the government, which means ultimately “agreement” at gunpoint. Whether this premise is implemented by means of a nativity scene on public property, prayer in public schools, or the Ten Commandments in a public courthouse--the meaning is that the government should dictate the contents of the individual’s mind.
The political Left has properly condemned governmental support of religious ideas--but at the same time, it demands that taxpayers support secular ideas, via National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, among myriad smaller agencies. If the Right’s attempt to impose religion by force is destructive of intellectual freedom, the Left’s demand that taxpayers support their ideas is openly contemptuous of the intellect. Liberals do not care whether you or I in fact agree with or approve of the ideas and images our tax dollars support--be they the latest collection of paint splotches or a Madonna smeared with elephant dung--just as long as we hand over our taxes. Thus, our minds have been rendered irrelevant, our agreement or disagreement pointless, as long as we serve as cash cows for the “artist” or “intellectual” to exploit.
Conservatives, who properly argue against public support for secular ideas, endorse the use of publicly funded institutions to promote religious ideas. Liberals, who properly object to religious displays on public property, advocate public funding for their pet ideas. It’s politics without mirrors: each group feels free to attack its opponents for violating rights, as long as they don’t have to notice that they are committing the exact same crime.
This so-called culture war truly is a war: a war against the individual mind. It is a particularly dirty kind of war, with both sides of the political spectrum vying for the right to enslave the minds of legally disarmed victims, and to do it by means of money expropriated from the victims themselves.
The only way to end this war is to re-assert the First Amendment, with its guarantee of intellectual freedom--and the only way to do that, is to get the government out of the business of supporting ideas.

Robert Garmong, Ph.D. in philosophy, is a writer for the Ayn Rand Institute (www.aynrand.org) in Irvine, Calif. The Institute promotes the philosophy of Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.

LP candidates will have impact in ‘04, article says

April 23, 2004

WASHINGTON, DC -- The Libertarian Party has received an unexpected burst of publicity from major news outlets over the past two weeks, with one article arguing that a third party candidate running as an independent or Libertarian “could sway the electorate enough to change history” in 2004 if he or she received the kind of press attention that Ralph Nader has attracted.

the Statue of Liberty

The positive articles from the Christian Science Monitor, CNN.com, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and others show that “the LP is showing up very early on the news media’s collective radar screen as it starts covering the 2004 campaign,” says the LP’s communications director, George Getz. “The news media know that our candidates have a chance to make an impact in 2004 because that’s exactly what happened in 2000 and 2002.”
Lawrence R. Jacobs, director of the 2004 Elections Project for the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, writes in an April 20 commentary in the Monitor that “the hot topic” for 2004 is whether Nader will again affect the outcome by taking a small but decisive percentage from likely Democratic nominee John Kerry.
But, citing a study that found that 20 percent of voters are disaffected from both major parties, Jacobs concludes that “a significant number of them could be tapped by gifted candidates running as independent or Libertarian — if these candidates received the kind of press attention that Nader has attracted.”
“While Nader hurts the presumed Democratic nominee John Kerry, voters open to conservative third-party candidates who promote small government and criticize ballooning government budget deficits pose a significant threat to President Bush’s re-election effort,” writes Jacobs in the op-ed, titled “Third-party threat: It’s not just Nader.”

“Freedom” billboard, Miami, Florida

The article cites example after example of swing states in which voters who want smaller government turned to Libertarian candidates rather than Republicans, costing the GOP seats in each case.
In Wisconsin, for example, where Bush narrowly lost in 2000, Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Ed Thompson garnered 10.5 of the vote in 2002, “enough to help Democrat Jim Doyle break the four-term Republican hold on the statehouse,” Jacobs says.
Other key states where Libertarian candidates have done well enough to affect the outcome of Senatorial or gubernatorial races in 2000 or 2002 include Nevada, New Hampshire and Missouri, he reports.
All told, 2 percent or more of voters in 15 Senate and gubernatorial elections cast their votes for Libertarians in 2002, indicating that the LP could be “a decisive factor in a close contest between Messrs. Bush and Kerry,” according to Jacobs’s analysis.
Jacobs also chastises pollsters who ignore third parties, warning that they “run the risk of missing the dynamics of the race and providing an inaccurate picture of the evolving campaign.”
The Christian Science Monitor article isn’t the only one that has praised the LP lately, Getz notes.
An April 19 article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, prompted by the election of St. Louis County LP Chair Tamara Millay to local office, says, “Perhaps it’s time that the Missouri Libertarian Party got a little respect.”
The column by Jo Mannies, one of the Post’s veteran political reporters, describes Millay as “a prominent Missouri Libertarian” who has run for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate several times, and chronicles her campaign for marshal of Greendale, a St. Louis suburb. Millay is also seeking the party’s nomination as vice president at the upcoming national convention in Atlanta over Memorial Day weekend.
The election of Millay is one of two recent “political boosts” for the LP, the article says. The other is the naming of Bob Sullentrup of St. Charles, Mo., as the party’s national secretary.
“About a year ago, political life didn’t look too great for Bob Sullentrup of St. Charles and his cohorts,” Mannies writes. “But now, one of his party’s stalwarts has been elected to a local public office, and Sullentrop is a top national leader.”
The article also acknowledges the LP’s ballot access supremacy over other third parties, and points out that competing candidates, such as Ralph Nader, must still collect thousands of signatures to get on the Missouri ballot.
“The fact is, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for president — the party will select its nominee next month — is the only sure bet to be on Missouri’s ballot against Republican incumbent George W. Bush and the likely Democratic nominee, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts,” Mannies writes.
The LP also played a prominent role in CNN.com’s coverage of Tax Day, Getz pointed out.
In a lighthearted look at April 15 headlined, “It’s Tax Day, Let’s Party,” CNN Money writer Gordon T. Anderson reported, “The Libertarian Party will show up at dozens of locations nationwide to promote limited government.”
In Minneapolis, he said, “Libertarians will carry signs emblazoned with Donald Trump’s picture. The tag line: ‘You’re Fired, but I can’t fire the IRS.’ “ Anderson also took note of one of the LP’s favorite tax-day publicity gimmicks: handing out phony $1 million bills to dramatize the fact that the government spends $1 million every five seconds.
http://www.lp.org/press/archive.php?function=view&record=654

The Assumption of Health-Care

I not only heard a few talk radio shows talk about this, but I also read an AP article from USAToday that a 22 year-old waitress without insurance was in an auto accident. Half of her brain was removed for corrective surgery. In fact, the USAtoday article reported that “Lane, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown through the windshield. (She was later charged with driving under the influence and not having a driver’s license.)”

1998 car accident

Oddly enough, that’s not the interesting part — the good part is that Medicaid and the hospital debated over who would cover the surgery to put her skull back in place after surgery on her brain. And because of this, four months passed where she didn’t have a complete skull. Thr AP article even stated that Briana Lane would sometimes “wake up in the morning to find that her brain had shifted to one side during the night ... The operation took place after Lane’s mother’s insurance decided to cover the surgery, as well as her nearly $200,000 in medical bills.”
People on talk radio questioned her having a license or being intoxicated while driving, but one dee jay said the final statement from this AP article in passing:
But she said the experience has left her a little more cynical about the health care system. “Just because they don’t have money doesn’t mean they should be treated differently from anyone else,” she said. “I’m a good person. I just happen to be not as rich as some of them.”
This sidenote at the end of her story shocked me more than anything else, because there is no reason she should by cynical that a healthcare system she never earned or payted for took so long to do work that to her was otherwise free. It’s horriffic that he had to go for months without her skull completely attached, but she should at least be grateful that someone was willing to pay the charges that she was never willing to pay insurance for.

1998 hospital stay

I quit my job to travel around the country, and thought that I didn’t need health insurance, because I never used it when I had my job. But my travel companion told me to get it anyway, because you never know when you’ll need it — and less than a year uear later someone almost killed me with their car — and having that insurance that I didn’t want to pay for saved my life. I know full well that medical bills have to be paid when someone is injured and meeds medical attention. If I didn’t have health insurance, I would never make enough money to pay for my medical bills - especially when I can’t get a job after that accident that gives me the chance to pay any of those bills off. Buying insurance may seem like buying a lottery ticket that never gives you money back, but when you need it most, it’s there for you.
It seems to me that the only people who ask for things that they don’t deserve are the people who haven’t earned the right to these things.

— Janet Kuypers, Editor-In-Chief

GROCERY STRIKE IS WRONG: HEALTH CARE IS NOT A RIGHT

NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA--THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GROCERY STRIKE, which seeks to establish health care as a right, is profoundly wrong, according to an op-ed released by California-based Americans for Free Choice in Medicine (AFCM).
Health expenditures have been escalating for years, but employers have typically resisted holding workers accountable to higher prices, AFCM contends. America’s employers are finally acknowledging the limits of employer-based, cradle-to grave health care coverage. They are realizing that health insurance, like auto, home and life insurance, must bear some relation to the individual — that the insured must pay for the insurance.
Each person is primarily responsible for his or her own health care, AFCM insists. Benefits are extended at the discretion of the business, which has no moral obligation to pay for anything but the cost of doing business.
L.A.’s grocery strike offers a stark contrast between socialism, which is based upon dependence on others, and capitalism, which is based upon self-reliance and independence, AFCM concludes.

http://www.afcm.org

AIDSwatch

from Human Rights Watch
http://hrw.org/press/2003/02/bushgagrule02203-ltr.htm
Febraury 26, 2003

Letter to President Bush on HIV/AIDS Funding and the Extension of the Global Gag Rule

Dear President Bush,

As a group of leading organizations dedicated to reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS and improving women’s health worldwide, we are heartened by the proposal outlined in your State of the Union address to dramatically increase U.S. funding in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. However, we are deeply disturbed to learn that the Administration is contemplating an expansion of the so-called Mexico City policy to cover some or all international HIV/AIDS funds, thereby disqualifying from U.S. funding many organizations positioned to be key partners in carrying out your “Emergency AIDS initiative.” Any such restrictions can only impede progress in the battle against HIV/AIDS and erode the good will generated by the Administration’s renewed commitment to funding HIV/AIDS programs.
It is our understanding that organizations using an integrated public health approach to prevent the spread of HIV and to treat and provide care for people living with AIDS will be disqualified under the expanded policy. This is indefensible. Governments and leading donor institutions throughout the world strongly support integrated family planning and HIV prevention programs as the best approach to improving public health. The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Sector Strategy for HIV/AIDS underscores that existing family planning programs “provide a clear entry point for the delivery of HIV/AIDS interventions.” USAID, the World Bank, the European Union and other leading donors in every region encourage integration as a matter of good public health practice and economic efficiency.
For women, access to integrated programs and services can make the difference between life and death. Women now represent half of those infected with HIV worldwide and 58 percent of those in Sub-Saharan Africa where the AIDS epidemic has taken the greatest toll to date. Integrated services offer women confidential outlets for voluntary counseling and testing, referrals for or direct provision of prevention of maternal-to-child transmission (MTCT), and treatment of other diseases. In addition, these services provide accurate information on sensitive issues, such as whether and how HIV-positive mothers can safely breastfeed their newborns; confidential access to MTCT; and a source of information and resources free from the stigma frequently associated with stand-alone HIV prevention programs. Such services are pivotal to preventing new infections and to improving the survival rates of those infected, while addressing other urgent public health priorities.
We represent a broad spectrum of organizations with a range of specific interests and points of view, but stand unified in our resolve to expedite U.S. assistance to those most affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. At this critical time it is urgent to eliminate barriers to effective programs not erect new ones. We therefore oppose any expansion of the “Mexico City” policy and urge the Administration in the strongest possible terms to abandon its plan to expand these restrictions in any form.

from Human Rights Watch
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/03/05/safric8146.htm
Published in THISDAY, http://www.thisdaysa.co.za/

Mass AIDS Plan Should Learn from Post-Rape HIV-Prevention Program

By Rebecca Schleifer
Originally published under the title “Prophylaxis, Pronto”

The South African government has promised to provide universal antiretroviral drug treatment as part of its new HIV/AIDS plan. The government’s recent experience of providing such drugs to rape survivors provides essential lessons as it prepares to implement the comprehensive programme.
In the face of South Africa’s explosive HIV/AIDS epidemic, rape and other rampant forms of sexual violence can be a death sentence for women and girls. In April 2002 the government pledged to provide rape survivors with post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)—antiretroviral drugs that can reduce the chances of contracting the virus from an HIV-positive attacker.
This is a promising programme, one that could become a model for other countries. But Human Rights Watch found last year that government inaction and misinformation by high-level officials had undermined the programme’s effectiveness.
Children, an estimated 40 percent of rape and attempted rape survivors, are especially harmed by the state’s failure to take their needs into account.
Many girls are coerced into sex and subjected to sexual harassment and violence by male relatives, boyfriends, schoolteachers and classmates. The stigma of rape and the shame associated with child sexual abuse makes it even more difficult for children to seek help. As the South African Police Service has observed, many children are raped by members of their own families, and these crimes ‘tend to be kept secret’. This compounds the problem because children are likely to need adult assistance in seeking post-rape help.
By law, children under 14 cannot consent on their own to PEP services or the prerequisite HIV testing beforehand. This poses problems for children unaccompanied by a parent or legal guardian, a common problem, particularly for children in communities hard hit by HIV/AIDS. There are provisions to obtain consent where no parent or legal guardian can be reached. But as Human Rights Watch discovered, many medical staff and rape counsellors either did not know or did not follow them. And where time is critical—as it is with PEP services—these bureaucratic procedures may take too long.
South African law and policy provide a framework for the prompt provision of health services to rape survivors. Unfortunately, service providers often fail to follow these rules. Police often respond inadequately, neglecting to assist rape survivors with seeking medical treatment or, in some cases, turning rape survivors away. Coupled with health professionals’ insistence that rape survivors file a police report to get medical services, these failures have undermined access to PEP.
The government launched its PEP programme in near silence, failing to provide adequate information and training about PEP. Many rape survivors did not get PEP simply because neither they nor the agencies charged with providing such services knew about PEP or where to get it. After years of vocal opposition to antiretroviral drugs, the government should have provided clear messages of support for the PEP programme to have a chance of success. But the highly publicised HIV/AIDS debate in government circles left service providers confused about whether antiretroviral drugs work and whether it was government policy to provide them.
In one case, a government hospital did not provide PEP medicines until a non-governmental organisation (NGO) worker explained to the hospital superintendent that doing so was part of government policy. The NGO worker told me: ‘The superintendent was scared to give the antiretrovirals because he thought it was against government policy.’
Now the government is gearing up to provide universal antiretroviral treatment. This effort will face many of the same challenges as providing PEP: public education, professional training and access for children under the age of consent.
Given its dangerous history of ambivalence on the issue, the government has an obligation to provide clear, unequivocal support for antiretroviral drugs as part of comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. In the meantime, the dual epidemics of sexual violence and HIV/AIDS will continue to claim the lives of too many South Africans.

* Rebecca Schleifer is a researcher with the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Programme of the NGO Human Rights Watch

Eye on the Sky

...from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_Belt

the Kuiper belt

The Kuiper belt is an area of the solar system extending from within the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to 50 AU from the sun, at inclinations consistent with the ecliptic.

Origins
The first astronomers to suggest the existence of this belt was Frederick C. Leonard in 1930 and Kenneth E. Edgeworth in 1943. In 1951 Gerard Kuiper suggested that objects did not exist in the belt anymore. More detailed conjectures about objects in the belt were done by Al G. W. Cameron in 1962, Fred L. Whipple in 1964, and Julio Fernandez in 1980. The belt and the objects in it were named after Kuiper after the discovery of 1992 QB1.
Modern computer simulations show the Kuiper belt to have been formed by the work of Jupiter, the young Jupiter having used its considerable gravity to eject smaller bodies which didn’t all escape completely, and also having been formed in-situ. The same simulations and other theories predict there should be bodies of significant mass in the belt, Mars or Earth sized.

the Aurora Borealis, Fairbanks, Alaska

Kuiper belt objects
Discoveries thus far
Over 800 Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) (a subset of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs)) have been discovered in the belt, almost all of them since 1992. The largest are Pluto and Charon, but since the year 2000 other large objects that approached their size were identified. Initial calculations show that the object Sedna may be larger than Charon. However, while some astronomers claim that Sedna is part of the Kuiper belt and that the current outer limit of the belt should be revised, most say that Sedna is too far out for the Kuiper belt and may actually be an inner Oort cloud object. Quaoar, discovered in 2002, is half the size of Pluto and is larger than the largest asteroid Ceres. Other known KBOs are progressively smaller. The exact classification of these objects is unclear, since they are probably fairly different from the asteroids of the inner solar system.

Size and Composition
Most KBOs are lumps of ice with some organic (carbon-containing) material such as tholin, detected using spectroscopy. They are of the same composition as comets and many astronomers believe them to be just comets. The distinction between comet and asteroid is not yet clear and there is a substantial uncertainty, inhabited by such objects as 2060 Chiron.
It is difficult to estimate the diameter of KBOs. For objects with very well known orbital elements (namely, Pluto and Charon), diameters can be precisely measured by occultation of stars.
For other large KBOs, diameters can be estimated by thermal measurement. If a body has high albedo, it is cold, and hence does not produce much blackbody radiation in the infrared. Conversely, a low albedo object produces more infrared. KBOs are so far from the sun that they are very cold, hence produce blackbody radiation around 60 micrometres in wavelength. This wavelength of light is impossible to observe on the Earth’s surface: astronomers thus observe the tail of the blackbody radiation in the far infrared. This far infrared radiation is so dim that the thermal method is only applicable to the largest KBOs. The diameter of the smaller objects is estimated by assuming an albedo: the diameter of such bodies should be taken to be a rough guess.

Just Nukes by Cheryl Townsend

Canto XLVIII

Michael Ceraolo

Americans!

Look deeply
into your background,

into your town’s history:
You probably have a Socialist in the closet,

ifor
there is a rich history of Socialism in this country,
(Surprise!)

largely untaught,

ilargely unscknowledged
(and therefore largely unknown)

iCome out
into the open:

more than a thousand officials elected all over the country
in more than a hundred cities;

state legislators
from Massachusetts to Minnesota to Montana
all the way to California on the west coast,
and many states in between;

municipal officials
from Berkeley to Butte to Buffalo to Brimingham,
from Coeur d’Alene to Cleveland to Cedar City (Utah),
from Martins Ferry to Milwaukee to Missoula,
from Schenectady to Sheboygan to Star City (West Virginia)
And,
all of you diehards who actually argue about
the dime’s worth of difference between the two ‘major’ parties,
take note:
when faced with an actual alternative
the ‘two parties’ managed to put aside their ‘differences’
and formed fusion parties to defeat the Socialists
And they came up with other alleged ‘reforms’
to keep control of the status quo:
‘non-partisan’ elections,
election of officials in an at-large manner
rather than by districts,
commision and other moves
to purportedly professionalize government,
“trap for the workingman,
hid under the guise of virtue”

And
when even all that didn’t work
and Socialists were elected anyway,
there was no compunction about
denying legitimately-elected officials their seats,

or
expelling them without cause once they were seated

And
from City Council in Cleveland
to the state legislature in New York
to the U.S. Congress in Washington,
such mission (not impossible) was acomplished
And the lesson to be learned
was that it was
“useless to elect a working class minority
if the chamber of commerce majority
can at any time oust them from office”

And
maybe that’s why
all of this remains untaught

Neon Sign by John Yotko

Canto XXXVIII

Michael Ceraolo

And yet,
freedom fighters falter,

though
it should have been scant surprise
that an organization founded by former Progressives
who had favored the First World War
and supported some sort of repression of those opposed
(before experiencing a late-life conversion
to a version of free speech,

way belatedly
coming to the realization that
a little repression was like being a little bit pregnant)
And thus
even the originator of the orthodoxy,
the American Civil Liberties Union,
would one day hold a heresy trial

The Thirties had wound down,

and
another World War had worked its way up,
a war that America had not yet entered

(officially)

(yet),

but
that did not stop a sort of ideological holy war
Apostates of certain faiths
would clash with apostles of those same faiths,

and
the advocates would abdicate their advocacy for all
in the futile attempt to remain ‘acceptable’,

in order
to continue their access to those in power,

laboring
under the delusion that they exercised
some degree of influence

Military Satellite 2 by Mark Graham

“the personnel of its governing committees and staff
is properly subject to the test of consistency
in defense of civil liberties
in all aspects and all places”

(italics added)
Since there were no known Nazis
on the ACLU Board of Directors
it was crystal clear which country
was being called out:

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
The Rebel Girl

woman Wobbly from way back

committed to civil liberties
when the putative Progressives were putting her friends in jail for their opinions
one of the founders of the ACLU in 1920
a board member since 1936,
the same year she joined the Communist Party

And
because she did not disavow the Communist Party
she was subjected to trial as a heretic
“This charge violates every principle we fought for in the past”

but
such arguments did not carry the day

And

thus it was
that the American Civil Liberties Union
purged her from its board
for exercising her rights
(Board membership restored to her,
posthumously,

nearly
forty years later

Emeritus in Eternity)

art by Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz

jones (part 7)

Charlie Newman

scraping up the dregs
the morning after the night
before says it all
scraping up the dregs
of dreams ground to fine powder
and squandered in heat
scraping up the dregs
in one redundant motion
after another
scraping up the dregs
to save what can be saved and
hold what can be held
scraping up the dregs
ignoring everything else
because it’s all just
scraping up the dregs
in a desperate fury
of gnawing hunger
scraping up the dregs
on the floor and the table
and the fingernails
scraping up the dregs
in the sink and the dirty
dishes and the knives
scraping up the dregs
from needles and razor blades
and scraps of paper
scraping up the dregs
from skin and bone and greasy
hair and bleeding lips
scraping up the dregs
in filthy ashtrays and cups
and charred wire screens
scraping up the dregs
in kitchens and bathrooms and
closets and hallways
scraping up the dregs
in garbage cans and broken
glass and old laundry
scraping up the dregs
in the bed and in the crib
and in the arm chair
scraping up the dregs
in the yard and the driveway
and the parched gutter
scraping up the dregs
in the eyes and in the blood
and in the marrow
scraping up the dregs
in the heart and in the soul
and in the spirit
scraping up the dregs
in filth and grime and stink and
never ending shame
scraping up the dregs
in shit and piss and puke and
pus and maggots and
scraping up the dregs
and scraping up the dregs and
scraping up the dregs

of Dewing Fame by Xanadu

Scrubbing the Juicer

John Vick

The acid spray of orange juice
doesn’t stop tonight’s ovulation,
growing the chance of another
mouth to feed.

She scouts back alley bars
and unemployment lines,
looks for a Him Hymn to replace
Ousted Other Him.

Pouting alone over scouring pad,
nursing a festering sore,
she dreams a feathered scull cap,
and Flynt, touted scholar of porn.

from In The Sea of Myths by Stephem Mead

Sense of Urgency

John Vick

You smell like
melon - fresh in the morning.

The scent of your clothes,
- bleach,
the feel of them
- crisp linen.

Your spastic toothpicks
after supper
won’t keep my mind off
your plantain
playin’ my music box.

Just thinking about us
doin’ the crossword
and you rappin’ my nose
with a rolled up newspaper.

Dancing with Johnny

John Vick

Tap or bottle,
Tap or bottle? she asks,
but there is no real choice.

The Durante-faced waitress
looks like trouble.

It’s only a gin joint,
but I predict water ala carte
won’t stop her
from trying to rush me.

Sophisticated silk jacket
over cotton Wal-Mart camisole,
she hoofs it around
to Folsom Prison Blues.

She serves me tongue
with a side of slaw,
bottle of black gunk
ketchup.

I dine quickly,
to keep the tongue
from singing along.

Last Thing by Rose E. Grier

Another American Night

Jon Petruschke

The TV screen turns
from pixels to Paxils
and I’m stuffed, yet starved,
chewing on the remote.
I defeated consumerism
by buying everything advertised.

Stench too great to endure

Marie Kazalia 5/10/2K4

she’s a mass of phobias
and fuck-ups

wakes up realizing this--

wonders about it all

writes this down

as if doing so--the scribbling
the forcing pencil lead point
over smooth white stock

will purify her

seeing the results
dirty words in dark mineral
marring the white sheet
she begins to think
just the opposite
bound to occur

that her confessions
only ruin her more

Mesh of Meanings by Rose E. Grier

bathroom stall writing on wall at Kennedy’s

Marie Kazalia

I don’t wanna walk
around w/you!

Why do words like love
& actions like affection
get taken as a threat
or promise of devotion?

I LIKE BIG GUYS

Marie Kazalia 5/21/2K4

I started my period--

anyway--no sex
and looks like the anglo-saxon didn’t come--
Maybe his conscience got the better of him

and my friends e-mailed doubts
that helps enforce my own certainty
that it’s of no consequence
to fuck a recently married man
if he & I both feel
we want to--
and the e-mail from my friends said
do what you want to --
but they themselves
had a no-married-men policy...
because they didn’t want to hurt
another woman
and yet
last nite just before I started my period
I had this fantasy
big tall anglo-saxon
taking off his clothes
sucking my nipples
fucking me long and hard
in some dark
cheaply rented room in North Beach
the same neighborhood
he lives with his wife--

this all seems to be happening
very quickly
he invited me to go
with him to Mexico
and I’m still not sure
if an actual trip planned
or just said to get a look into my eyes
a glimpse of my recognition
of his intent
to do more with me than say hello
when we run into one another
out separately for coffee--

men go out with me once
then fall in love with me
pressure & pursue
me into exclusion--
so that a low-key romance
with a married man
may be just right for me--
So where in the hell is he?
Did some friends already tell his wife
he’d been seen out with me?
have they been fighting
he assuring her
nothing happened
have they made-up
she insisting
he stay home with her tonight?

I push my boobs up together again
into my low cut shirt
pull the lace
covering up
makes the cleavage more obscure
and enticing--
I know several people
sitting out at windy tables
along the slanted sidewalk
Marco, John D., Jessica
Jack H. & his woman--
some I’ve seen and talked to
yet forget their names--
still no sign of the anglo-saxon
(I’m too damn beautiful
for these men anyway--)
his sulky wife
looms in my imagination
(god, I’d never want to be that kind
of guilt-tripping drag of a woman)
and so I almost believe
the anglo-saxon--drinking beer
at Vesuvio’s with me last nite--
when he told me--
“you either have to sleep with
just one man--or all of them”
and of course
there in lies the solution

so many have presented themselves
yet failed all the tests--
to be mine--
so I’ll just have to settle for
lots of cocks
instead of just one exclusive--

I had planned on the anglo-saxon
as being first in the series--

if he doesn’t show-up
soon I’ll have to find some other one--

I like big men--
why pretend
and tell all the short ones
I love them--
just because so many
of them have wanted me--

so it seems
sitting here
I’ve come to
some new decisions
and
I am no longer
afraid
to reveal
who I am
and my feelings--

paiting by Dave Jarvie

RESTORE ME.

Durlabh Singh

Restore me
To myself
Divorce me
From perpetual death.

Bathe me
In fresh showers
Under the summer sun.

Take me
To lands
That speak of mystery
Where the tongues
Are given to leaves
And songs to birds
And little cicada sings
Enlivening the valley
With fresh sounds
Across the mountains.

Seize me
From clutches of
Concrete
Give me suns
That will melt
The frozen seas
Within myself.

You Will by Shannon Peppers

Un rêve au sujet de meurtre.

French writing (A Dream About Murder) by Gabriel Athens

J’ai eu une dernière nuit rêveuse, il était différent de mes rêves
habituels, habituellement je rêve de la substance qui semble jolis
vraie, quelque peu mondaine et le plus habituellement à la frustration.
Mais je ne sais pas si c’était le vin que j’ai eu au régal de
Thanksgiving chez Rachel en bas du bloc, ou si j’entendais une certaine
histoire étrange à la télévision plus tôt, mais je rêvais du meurtre.
Dave et moi restaient à un hôtel, je ne sais pas où l’hôtel était, mais
il était sur une eau superficielle, je pensent qu’il était un lac, pas
un océan ou quelque chose. Et je me rappelle à un certain point, c’était
aube dans le rêve, je suis allé chercher un essai, j’ai noté l’extérieur
bel de deux hommes tandis que j’étais sur mon essai, et alors j’ai
descendu la colline à l’eau. J’ai voulu pulser le long de l’eau. Mais
ils l’ont eue roped hors fonction - je ne sais pas même qui “ elles”
seraient, mais la zone le long de l’eau était roped hors fonction,
peut-être jusqu’ au plein jour, peut-être alors maître nageurs serait là
pour protéger le peuple. Mais le point est, je ne pourrais pas pulser le
long de l’eau, ainsi je me suis assis au bas des escaliers par le bord
de l’eau, droite devant les cordes, et ai observé l’eau. Et une femme
est venue le long en bas des escaliers, et assis à côté de moi pour
observer l’eau, aussi. Je me rappelle de penser que je n’ai pas aimé son
être si étroit, j’aime garder un sens de l’espace personnel, mais alors
il s’est produit à moi qu’il n’y avait pas beaucoup d’espace pour
qu’elle aille puisque la zone entière était roped hors fonction. Et la
chose est, je n’aiment pas même pulser.
Ah, tellement de toute façon, je ne connais pas même pourquoi je suis
allé chercher un essai ou à quel point à temps dans mon rêve cet essai
s’est produit. Mais je sais que dans le rêve j’ai détruit quelqu’un. Il
s’est produit avant que mon rêve ait techniquement commencé; Je ne me
rappelle rien au sujet du meurtre, je ne sais pas s’ il était moi
seulement qu’a fait le massacre ou si Dave était là avec moi, tout que
je sais est que j’ai détruit un type, je ne sais pas pourquoi j’ai
détruit le hime, mais j’ai détruit quelqu’un dans une autre chambre dans
le même hôtel, quelqu’un que je n’ai pas égalisé vraiment sais. Et la
chose est, je portais les ongles faux pendant le meurtre, ou est au
moins ce ce que j’infered dans le rêve, parce que j’ai pensé j’ai
détruit un d’elles à la scène du crime et la partie principale du rêve
était moi dans la salle de bains retirant tous mes ongles faux parce
qu’ils pourraient m’impliquer dans le meurtre.
Ainsi je retirais mes ongles, ils étaient les ongles en plastique collés
en fonction à mes vrais ongles, et ils n’ont pas été même peints, ils
étaient encore plastique blanc juste. Et car je retirais ces ongles faux
que je les relâchais sur le plancher parce que je les déchirais hors
fonction tellement frantically, je n’ai pas voulu que n’importe qui pt
me joindre à ce meurtre. Ainsi quand je suis descendu d’eux tous,
j’étais encore inquiété que j’ai eu une peu de colle à gauche sur mes
vrais ongles de doigt, ainsi j’essayais d’enlever cela, et alors
j’essayais de prendre tous les ongles faux outre du plancher de salle de
bains. Ils tous sont tombés juste à la droite de la toilette, et étaient
sur le plancher de tuiles, et je me rappelle comme je les sélectionnais
vers le haut que j’ai également pris une boule de la poussière et un
morceau utilisé de bande claire. Je me rappelle que pensant cela étaient
impairs, parce qu’habituellement les planchers de salle de bains d’hôtel
sont propres, ils sont nettoyés chaque jour. Tellement de toute façon,
cueillette de kpt de I vers le haut des ongles, essayant de s’assurer je
les ai obtenus tous, de temps en temps relâchant un d’eux en arrière sur
le plancher parce que j’étais si agité et si nerveux. Ceci a fait le
procédé entier prendre la majeure partie de mon rêve.
Une fois que j’avais tous les ongles, la seule chose que je pourrais
penser environ était comment rejeter les ongles, et le reste du rêve est
devenu un effort effréné de figurer hors de la façon dont je pourrais me
débarasser d’eux de sorte qu’ils n’aient pas pu être tracés de nouveau à
moi. je penser que je pouvoir juste vid les tout en bas
toilette, mais alors je penser que il pouvoir y avoir un chance que un
ongle non descendre down et juste rester bas toilette et je non noter et
penser je à la maison libre mais dans réalité je laisser un énorme
preuve of evidence dans mon propre hôtel pièce joindre meurtre. Alors je
me suis demandé s’ ils auraient une voie à tamiser par l’eau d’égout de
l’hôtel, tellement alors j’ai pensé que je ne devrais vider aucune
d’entre elles avale la toilette, mais vais au divers restroom public
autour de la ville et vide quelques uns à la fois que.
Alors j’ai commencé à m’inquiéter que si l’ongle I gauche à la scène du
crime prenait plus que juste la colle avec lui, cela il ait pris
réellement une partie de mon ongle avec lui, puis j’aurais l’évidence
gauche d’cAdn à la scène du crime et il n’y aurait rien que je pourrais faire.
Et alors j’ai commencé à me demander si je détruisais réellement un
ongle à la scène du meurtre, ou si j’étais overreacting juste.
Et alors je me suis demandé si n’importe qui avait même trouvé le corps
mort encore, toute cette fois s’étendant là sur le plancher de leur
pièce d’hôtel. Et alors le téléphone a sonné et je me suis réveillé.

Down the Drain by Jacob Best

iedereen heeft geheimen

finnish translated by Jean Hellemans for Jimbo Breen

iedereen heeft geheimen en dit is het mijne.
Kracht is mijn zwakke plek
en nu blijven mijn schouders niet op hun plaats.
Je vroeg me mijn ogen te openen
maar ze zijn open, dat denk ik toch.
Waarom neem je me niet in jou armen ?
Waarom verleid je me niet ?
Trek me uiteen. Scheur me in stukken.
Hou geen rekening met mijn kuisheid
Ik wil niet sterk zijn . wees sterk voor mij,
zodat ik me kan laten gaan
en nergens zorgen over te maken
of mijn ogen nu open zijn of niet.

Pen Light 2 by Mike Hovancek

Eine Lebensdauer Vergeht

(“A Life Goes By” in German, by Helena Wolfe)

1978. Mom und Vati auf Ferien. Schwester in der Hochschule. Babysitting
Grandma. Sie brachte mir bei, wie man Gin Rummy im lebenden Raum spielt.
Ich smudge das Ende auf der hlzernen Tabelle, jedesmal wenn ich meine
Hand auf sie setze. Wir spielen Karten Stunden lang. 1983. Grandma ist
rüber zum Baby sitzen. Schwester kommt nach Hause. “ warum nicht das
betriebsbereite Abendessen ist, Grandma? “, “ ich konnte nicht den Ofen
einschalten. “,
Sie war ein sly alter Fuchs, meine gesagte Schwester. Sie konnte einen
Ofen einschalten. Verlassen ein Müssen Abendessen bilden. Das Huhn Kiew
war eine späte halbe Stunde. 1986. Frühling. Freitag, 4:55 P.M.. Mom und
Vati und Schwester klitten für Abendessen an. Vati wartet Mom an der
Tür. Sie mußten Grandma noch aufheben, bevor sie zur Gaststätte
MikrophonMoy antrieben. Mom überprüft ihre Auge Verfassung im
Schlafzimmerspiegel.
Ich stehe im Eingang zu ihrem Raum. Sind Sie sicher Sie mchten nicht
mit uns gehen? “, sie bittet. Ich würde eher im Haus durch mich, laute
Musik des Spiels bleiben. Ich war eine rebellious Jugend. Ich sage Nr..
“ erklären Sie Grandma I besagtes hohes. “, 1988. Schwesteraufrufe. “
Grandma bewegt sich nach Arizona, “ sagt sie. “ sie wird mit Tante Rose
leben. “, Sie verläßt in fünf Tagen.
3 Tage später. Ich rufe sie an. Ich erkläre ihr, daß ich versuche, ihren
folgenden Sommer zu besuchen. Ich erkläre ihr, daß ich sie vermisse. Ich
bereits vermisse sie. Sie sagt, daß sie mich liebt. Ich hänge oben und
denke, daß sie normalerweise nicht sagt, daß sie Leute liebt. Sie ist
nicht normalerweise liebevoll. Ich beginne zu schreien.
3 Tage später. Ich besuche Familie. Vater umarmt mich. Er hiccups beim
Schreien. Sie starb heute morgen, sie erklärt mir. Aber sorgen Sie nicht
sich um das jetzt, wir sind spät für das Weihnachtsbeteiligte.
Ich bin in einem Auto. Schwester treibt zum Familie Beteiligten an. Wir
sind ruhig. Sie spricht schließlich. “ sind Sie okay? “, und ich erkläre
ihr, daß ich fein bin. Was sie nicht verwirklicht, ist, daß ich nicht
sage, daß ich fein bin. Ich betrachte ihr Gesicht. Sie dreht ihren Kopf
von der Straße zum Blick an mir. Ich beachte, nun da wir wirklich gleich
schauen.
Etwas in der Schwester ist tot. Sie versteckt die Schmerz, und er
beendet ein Stück von ihr. Ich denke, daß ein Teil von mir, auch stirbt.
Am Beteiligten. Jeder lacht. Brüder, Schwestern, Neffeen, eine Nichte,
ein Onkel. Ein Sister-in-law sagt zu mir, wie sie hallo sagt, “ ich sind
traurig. “, Ich versuche, auf Locher betrunken zu erhalten.
Schwester zieht einen Stapel der Geschenke für die Familie aus. Sie sind
von Grandma. Jesus Christ. Sie starb heute morgen. Jemand sagen etwas.
Sie kaufte mich ein Paar Ohrringe.

The Night by I. B. Rad

una corrispondenza

Italign: “a match,” by Marina Arturo

“ la I ha regolato una volta il fuoco alla mia unghia. Ho
desiderato la mia barretta essere una candela umana. “ Ha caduto un’
altra corrispondenza nel suo vetro. La fiamma sizzled nelle gocce
della bevanda alla parte inferiore. Ha colpito un’ altra
corrispondenza sul lato della casella. Corrispondenze della cucina.
Sei o sette pongono sul tovagliolo del cocktail, dieci di più alla
parte inferiore del vetro. In una cabina d’angolo, in questo piccolo
randello la fiamma che ha destato assomigliato a qualunque altra luce
della tabella. Ma il randello era suo. La ha posseduta piedi sul
banco, ginocchia piegate. Tutto là ha messo a fuoco su lei e sulla
parte piccola di energia che ha tenuto. Tutto là era suo da abusare.
E lei struch un’ altra corrispondenza. “ una vecchia fiamma ha usato
dire che tutto è un pyro a cuore. “ Ed ha arrossito. “ yeah, ho
regolato la mia unghia su fuoco mentre stavo comunicando con qualcuno.
Era un chiodo falso. La plastica burning ha sentito l’odore di. Ma
non ho realizzato che cosa avevo fatto fino a che non ritenessi il
calore sulla mia pelle. “ Appena allora potreste vedere la fiamma
ballare alla sua punta delle dita. Ha agitato la corrispondenza. La
ha caduta in suo vetro.

Choices by Mackenzie silver

Y qué deseo saber

“And What I Want To Know,” Spanish Translation by Shannon Peppers

He estado soñando con usted últimamente.
Generalmente, en mis sueños, le veo
para apenas un cortocircuito mientras que,
entonces usted tiene que irse.
Quizá usted me dice que usted me falte.
Usted me besa quizá.
Ayer por la noche,
cuando usted me dej de nuevo
Conduje después de usted
el aeropuerto así que a mí podía decir
adis a usted una más vez.
En mis sueños usted está siempre con mí.
En mis sueños usted me está dejando siempre.
En mis sueños me ejecuto después de usted.
Apenas para decir adis otra vez.

Y qué deseo saber soy
cuando son estos sueños que van a parar.

Y qué deseo saber soy
es usted que sueña con mí también.

Sueño despierto sobre usted por las mañanas
mientras que mis piernas
todavía se enredan en mis hojas.
Me cierro los ojos, así que puedo sentirle allí,
encrespado para arriba contra mí. Porqué -

porqué tengo que salir de esta cama.

Y qué deseo saber soy
si usted me vio golpeado por un coche
mi cuerpo sin vida que miente en la calle
usted me sostendría
para arriba contra usted,
usted sostendría mis brazos blandos
en sus manos gruesas.
Usted me oscilaría para dormir.
Usted gritaría.
Usted no desearía decir adis.

Y qué deseo saber soy
si usted vio el coche el apresurar hacia mí
usted se ejecuta inmediatamente a mí
porque la vida no es ninguna
vida más larga
sin el usted ama.

Sé lo que diría.
Sé mis respuestas.

Y qué deseo saber soy
si vivo como esto por siempre.
Y qué deseo saber soy
si voy a sufrir este solo.

Y qué deseo saber soy
es usted que sueña con mí también.

Todos Estes Lembretes

“All These Reminders” Portuguese translation by Aeon Logan

Olhe, sobre aqui, em meu quarto vivo.
Você deixou um frasco vazio da cerveja
na tabela da extremidade. O tampão, demasiado.
E vindo aqui, siga-me, sobre aqui,
na cozinha, olhe dentro aqui, vêem,
você deixou algum de seu alimento no pantry.
Uma caixa do espaguete, alguns enlatou
tomates. E vindo aqui, no banheiro,
Eu sei que você provavelmente não observará este,
mas aqui, esta toalha, cheira o gosto
você, é cheiros como seu creme raspando.
E eu poderia jurar minha cama crumpled
as folhas estão ainda mornas de você.

Porque você teve que ir. Porque
faz isto têm que parecer assim duro.

Aprovação, olhar aqui, o telecontrole para
a televisão está no braço da cadeira,
onde você a deixa sempre. E o cocktail
tabela, é empurrado para a frente em um lado
porque você descansaria sempre seus pés
nele. Em toda parte eu olho em torno de mim,
Eu v algo que você afetou.
Eu olho na cozinha. Eu olho no
quarto jantando. Eu olho no espelho.

Porque você me fêz este. Porque
não poderia você ter feito uma ruptura limpa.

Há ainda algumas de suas mensagens
scribbled em sucatas do papel ao lado de
o telefone na cozinha. E olhar,
o descanso no couch é ajuntado
acima de porque você poderia nunca começar
confortável com ele. E sobre aqui,
os livros de telefone estão para fora no
contador da cozinha, você nunca pe-nos
afastado, e aqui eles está, o assento imvel
para fora de, eu terei que pô-los para trás no
armário e olhar aqui, porque eu
tenha ainda todas suas letras do amor
enchido em uma gaveta em minha mesa.

Quando você me deixou, porque o fêz
tem que deixar-me todos estes lembretes.

kinderen, kerken en vaders

Children, Churches and Daddies

translated by Jean Hellemans, translated into Finnish, poem by Janet Kuypers

het kleine meisje zei tegen mij
“Ik dacht dat alleen vaders bier
drinken.” En ik vond mezelf

zoekend naar excuses voor het glas
in mijn hand. Ik herinner me in de
kerk te zijn geweest, als gast bij een

huwelijk van twee mensen
Ik wist het niet. Mijn afspraak wees
me twee kleine jongens

wandelend naar hun stoelen
voor ons. In kleine witte pakken en
cowboy laarzen, dit is centraal Illinois.

En mijn begeleider
zei dat hij zeker was dat deze jongens
zouden opgroeien tot homo’s.

en het ergste was dat hun vader
de trainer was van de universiteits
voetbalploeg. Ik denk dat ik

lachte, maar ik trad hem bij
Ik herinner me in de kerk ,
het was Kerstmis

de familie van Eve, mijn afspraak stond op
voor de communie, en alles waar ik kon aan denken
was het zingen van de liederen

heel luid, de woorden kende ik niet
ik wist niet wat ik daar deed
wat ik er verwachte.

En ik bleef zitten, terwijl iedereen
traag naar voor liep
naar het altaar van de kerk

Kleine soldaatjes op een rij
de kleine kinderen in hun mooie kledij
achter hun moeders
en hun vaders.

En het kleine meisje zei, “Ik dacht dat
alleen vaders bier drinken.”
Ik zag mezelf naar
verontschuldigingen zoeken.

Nick DiSpoldo, Small Press Review (on “Children, Churches and Daddies,” April 1997)

Kuypers is the widely-published poet of particular perspectives and not a little existential rage, but she does not impose her personal or artistic agenda on her magazine. CC+D is a provocative potpourri of news stories, poetry, humor, art and the “dirty underwear” of politics.
One piece in this issue is “Crazy,” an interview Kuypers conducted with “Madeline,” a murderess who was found insane, and is confined to West Virginia’s Arronsville Correctional Center. Madeline, whose elevator definitely doesn’t go to the top, killed her boyfriend during sex with an ice pick and a chef’s knife, far surpassing the butchery of Elena Bobbitt. Madeline, herself covered with blood, sat beside her lover’s remains for three days, talking to herself, and that is how the police found her. For effect, Kuypers publishes Madeline’s monologue in different-sized type, and the result is something between a sense of Dali’s surrealism and Kafka-like craziness.

Debra Purdy Kong, writer, British Columbia, Canada
I like the magazine a lot. I like the spacious lay-out and the different coloured pages and the variety of writer’s styles. Too many literary magazines read as if everyone graduated from the same course. We need to collect more voices like these and send them everywhere.

Ed Hamilton, writer

#85 (of Children, Churches and Daddies) turned out well. I really enjoyed the humor section, especially the test score answers. And, the cup-holder story is hilarious. I’m not a big fan of poetry - since much of it is so hard to decipher - but I was impressed by the work here, which tends toward the straightforward and unpretentious.
As for the fiction, the piece by Anderson is quite perceptive: I liked the way the self-deluding situation of the character is gradually, subtly revealed. (Kuypers’) story is good too: the way it switches narrative perspective via the letter device is a nice touch.

Children, Churches and Daddies.
It speaks for itself.
Write to Scars Publications to submit poetry, prose and artwork to Children, Churches and Daddies literary magazine, or to inquire about having your own chapbook, and maybe a few reviews like these.

Jim Maddocks, GLASGOW, via the Internet

I’ll be totally honest, of the material in Issue (either 83 or 86 of Children, Churches and Daddies) the only ones I really took to were Kuypers’. TRYING was so simple but most truths are, aren’t they?

what is veganism?
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This cruelty-free lifestyle provides many benefits, to animals, the environment and to ourselves. The meat and dairy industry abuses billions of animals. Animal agriculture takes an enormous toll on the land. Consumtion of animal products has been linked to heart disease, colon and breast cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes and a host of other conditions.

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We can succeed in shifting agriculture away from factory farming, saving millions, or even billions of chickens, cows, pigs, sheep turkeys and other animals from cruelty.
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C Ra McGuirt, Editor, The Penny Dreadful Review (on Children, Churches and Daddies)

CC&D is obviously a labor of love ... I just have to smile when I go through it. (Janet Kuypers) uses her space and her poets to best effect, and the illos attest to her skill as a graphic artist.
I really like (“Writing Your Name”). It’s one of those kind of things where your eye isn’t exactly pulled along, but falls effortlessly down the poem.
I liked “knowledge” for its mix of disgust and acceptance. Janet Kuypers does good little movies, by which I mean her stuff provokes moving imagery for me. Color, no dialogue; the voice of the poem is the narrator over the film.

Children, Churches and Daddies no longer distributes free contributor’s copies of issues. In order to receive issues of Children, Churches and Daddies, contact Janet Kuypers at the cc&d e-mail addres. Free electronic subscriptions are available via email. All you need to do is email ccandd@scars.tv... and ask to be added to the free cc+d electronic subscription mailing list. And you can still see issues every month at the Children, Churches and Daddies website, located at http://scars.tv

Mark Blickley, writer

The precursor to the magazine title (Children, Churches and Daddies) is very moving. “Scars” is also an excellent prose poem. I never really thought about scars as being a form of nostalgia. But in the poem it also represents courage and warmth. I look forward to finishing her book.

MIT Vegetarian Support Group (VSG)

functions:
* To show the MIT Food Service that there is a large community of vegetarians at MIT (and other health-conscious people) whom they are alienating with current menus, and to give positive suggestions for change.
* To exchange recipes and names of Boston area veg restaurants
* To provide a resource to people seeking communal vegetarian cooking
* To provide an option for vegetarian freshmen

We also have a discussion group for all issues related to vegetarianism, which currently has about 150 members, many of whom are outside the Boston area. The group is focusing more toward outreach and evolving from what it has been in years past. We welcome new members, as well as the opportunity to inform people about the benefits of vegetarianism, to our health, the environment, animal welfare, and a variety of other issues.

Gary, Editor, The Road Out of Town (on the Children, Churches and Daddies Web Site)

I just checked out the site. It looks great.

Dusty Dog Reviews: These poems document a very complicated internal response to the feminine side of social existence. And as the book proceeds the poems become increasingly psychologically complex and, ultimately, fascinating and genuinely rewarding.

John Sweet, writer (on chapbook designs)

Visuals were awesome. They’ve got a nice enigmatic quality to them. Front cover reminds me of the Roman sculptures of angels from way back when. Loved the staggered tire lettering, too. Way cool. (on “Hope Chest in the Attic”)
Some excellent writing in “Hope Chest in the Attic.” I thought “Children, Churches and Daddies” and “The Room of the Rape” were particularly powerful pieces.

C Ra McGuirt, Editor, The Penny Dreadful Review: CC&D is obviously a labor of love ... I just have to smile when I go through it. (Janet Kuypers) uses her space and her poets to best effect, and the illos attest to her skill as a graphic artist.

Cheryl Townsend, Editor, Impetus (on Children, Churches and Daddies)

The new CC&D looks absolutely amazing. It’s a wonderful lay-out, looks really professional - all you need is the glossy pages. Truly impressive AND the calendar, too. Can’t wait to actually start reading all the stuff inside.. Wanted to just say, it looks good so far!!!

Dusty Dog Reviews: She opens with a poem of her own devising, which has that wintry atmosphere demonstrated in the movie version of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. The atmosphere of wintry white and cold, gloriously murderous cold, stark raging cold, numbing and brutalizing cold, appears almost as a character who announces to his audience, “Wisdom occurs only after a laboriously magnificent disappointment.” Alas, that our Dusty Dog for mat cannot do justice to Ms. Kuypers’ very personal layering of her poem across the page.

Fithian Press, Santa Barbara, CA
Indeed, there’s a healthy balance here between wit and dark vision, romance and reality, just as there’s a good balance between words and graphics. The work shows brave self-exploration, and serves as a reminder of mortality and the fragile beauty of friendship.

Mark Blickley, writer
The precursor to the magazine title (Children, Churches and Daddies) is very moving. “Scars” is also an excellent prose poem. I never really thought about scars as being a form of nostalgia. But in the poem it also represents courage and warmth. I look forward to finishing her book.

You Have to be Published to be Appreciated.

Do you want to be heard? Contact Children, Churches and Daddies about book or chapbook publishing. These reviews can be yours. Scars Publications, attention J. Kuypers. We’re only an e-mail away. Write to us.

Brian B. Braddock, Writer (on 1996 Children, Churches and Daddies)

I passed on a copy to my brother who is the director of the St. Camillus AIDS programs. We found (Children, Churches and Daddies’) obvious dedication along this line admirable.

The Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
The Solar Energy Research & Education Foundation (SEREF), a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., established on Earth Day 1993 the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST) as its central project. CREST’s three principal projects are to provide:
* on-site training and education workshops on the sustainable development interconnections of energy, economics and environment;
* on-line distance learning/training resources on CREST’s SOLSTICE computer, available from 144 countries through email and the Internet;
* on-disc training and educational resources through the use of interactive multimedia applications on CD-ROM computer discs - showcasing current achievements and future opportunities in sustainable energy development.
The CREST staff also does “on the road” presentations, demonstrations, and workshops showcasing its activities and available resources.
For More Information Please Contact: Deborah Anderson
dja@crest.org or (202) 289-0061

Dorrance Publishing Co., Pittsburgh, PA
“Hope Chest in the Attic” captures the complexity of human nature and reveals startling yet profound discernments about the travesties that surge through the course of life. This collection of poetry, prose and artwork reflects sensitivity toward feminist issues concerning abuse, sexism and equality. It also probes the emotional torrent that people may experience as a reaction to the delicate topics of death, love and family.
“Chain Smoking” depicts the emotional distress that afflicted a friend while he struggled to clarify his sexual ambiguity. Not only does this thought-provoking profile address the plight that homosexuals face in a homophobic society, it also characterizes the essence of friendship. “The room of the rape” is a passionate representation of the suffering rape victims experience. Vivid descriptions, rich symbolism, and candid expressions paint a shocking portrait of victory over the gripping fear that consumes the soul after a painful exploitation.

want a review like this? contact scars about getting your own book published.

Paul Weinman, Writer (on 1996 Children, Churches and Daddies)

Wonderful new direction (Children, Churches and Daddies has) taken - great articles, etc. (especially those on AIDS). Great stories - all sorts of hot info!

The magazine Children Churches and Daddies is Copyright © through Scars Publications and Design. The rights of the individual pieces remain with the authors. No material may be reprinted without express permission from the author.

Okay, nilla wafer. Listen up and listen good. How to save your life. Submit, or I’ll have to kill you.
Okay, it’s this simple: send me published or unpublished poetry, prose or art work (do not send originals), along with a bio, to us - then sit around and wait... Pretty soon you’ll hear from the happy people at cc&d that says (a) Your work sucks, or (b) This is fancy crap, and we’re gonna print it. It’s that simple!

Okay, butt-munch. Tough guy. This is how to win the editors over.
Hope Chest in the Attic is a 200 page, perfect-bound book of 13 years of poetry, prose and art by Janet Kuypers. It’s a really classy thing, if you know what I mean. We also have a few extra sopies of the 1999 book “Rinse and Repeat”, the 2001 book “Survive and Thrive”, the 2001 books “Torture and Triumph” and “(no so) Warm and Fuzzy”, which all have issues of cc&d crammed into one book. And you can have either one of these things at just five bucks a pop if you just contact us and tell us you saw this ad space. It’s an offer you can’t refuse...

Carlton Press, New York, NY: HOPE CHEST IN THE ATTIC is a collection of well-fashioned, often elegant poems and short prose that deals in many instances, with the most mysterious and awesome of human experiences: love... Janet Kuypers draws from a vast range of experiences and transforms thoughts into lyrical and succinct verse... Recommended as poetic fare that will titillate the palate in its imagery and imaginative creations.
Mark Blickley, writer: The precursor to the magazine title (Children, Churches and Daddies) is very moving. “Scars” is also an excellent prose poem. I never really thought about scars as being a form of nostalgia. But in the poem it also represents courage and warmth. I look forward to finishing the book.

You Have to be Published to be Appreciated.
Do you want to be heard? Contact Children, Churches and Daddies about book and chapbook publishing. These reviews can be yours. Scars Publications, attention J. Kuypers - you can write for yourself or you can write for an audience. It’s your call...

Dorrance Publishing Co., Pittsburgh, PA: “Hope Chest in the Attic” captures the complexity of human nature and reveals startling yet profound discernments about the travesties that surge through the course of life. This collection of poetry, prose and artwork reflects sensitivity toward feminist issues concerning abuse, sexism and equality. It also probes the emotional torrent that people may experience as a reaction to the delicate topics of death, love and family. “Chain Smoking” depicts the emotional distress that afflicted a friend while he struggled to clarify his sexual ambiguity. Not only does this thought-provoking profile address the plight that homosexuals face in a homophobic society, it also characterizes the essence of friendship. “The room of the rape” is a passionate representation of the suffering rape victims experience. Vivid descriptions, rich symbolism, and candid expressions paint a shocking portrait of victory over the gripping fear that consumes the soul after a painful exploitation.

Dusty Dog Reviews, CA (on knife): These poems document a very complicated internal response to the feminine side of social existence. And as the book proceeds the poems become increasingly psychologically complex and, ultimately, fascinating and genuinely rewarding.
Children, Churches and Daddies. It speaks for itself.

Dusty Dog Reviews (on Without You): She open with a poem of her own devising, which has that wintry atmosphere demonstrated in the movie version of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. The atmosphere of wintry white and cold, gloriously murderous cold, stark raging cold, numbing and brutalizing cold, appears almost as a character who announces to his audience, “Wisdom occurs only after a laboriously magnificent disappointment.” Alas, that our Dusty Dog for mat cannot do justice to Ms. Kuypers’ very personal layering of her poem across the page.
Children, Churches and Daddies. It speaks for itself.

Debra Purdy Kong, writer, British Columbia, Canada (on Children, Churches and Daddies): I like the magazine a lot. I like the spacious lay-out and the different coloured pages and the variety of writer’s styles. Too many literary magazines read as if everyone graduated from the same course. We need to collect more voices like these and send them everywhere.
Fithian Press, Santa Barbara, CA: Indeed, there’s a healthy balance here between wit and dark vision, romance and reality, just as there’s a good balance between words and graphics. The work shows brave self-exploration, and serves as a reminder of mortality and the fragile beauty of friendship.

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Children, Churches and Daddies (founded 1993) has been written and researched by political groups and writers from the United States, Canada, England, India, Italy, Malta, Norway and Turkey. Regular features provide coverage of environmental, political and social issues (via news and philosophy) as well as fiction and poetry, and act as an information and education source. Children, Churches and Daddies is the leading magazine for this combination of information, education and entertainment.
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