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- From: trask@world.std.com (Gardner S Trask)
- Subject: Re: I object to Jennifer Fang-Chen's pettiness and malice
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 19:52:20 GMT
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- Xref: taco.cc.ncsu.edu rec.arts.poems:3423 alt.culture.gard-trask:257
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- Hey kids, I was just cruising by (actually I was looking for a public
- apology Therese said she would write any day now about how I maligned her
- by suggesting she and monkeyboy had a personal relationship. Obviously
- Utah was hapenstance)
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- Anyhow, what to my wandering eyes should appear, but our favorite pursuer
- of teen-age girls once again slamming a woman for posting her opinion of
- his tripe. How sweet. Marek found a plaything that can actually remember
- Lyndon Johnson.
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- Anyhow, I thought I would say "HI" and just say that y'all get what you
- deserve when you let monkeyboy, the mime-wannabe, get away with bashing
- people so.
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- Hey, some of you may be interested in a couple of poems I wrote a while back;
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- hope you like them ....
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- Gard
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- Eulogy for R.A.P.
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- Baa, baa, little sheep
- have you any spine.
- No sir, Marek stole it.
- One post at a time.
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- He stole it with his obscene rants,
- he called the women "cows".
- He threatened lawsuits left and right,
- if anyone opposed.
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- At first some of us protested
- and were roasted over his flame
- and it got so damn pervasive,
- we decided; it wasn't worth the pain.
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- Soon his hate rants went unanswered,
- and the populace cut him some slack,
- for he posting Polish poems here
- as well as some he hacked.
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- His cancer grew, and we got use
- to this thorn stuck in our paws.
- And in silent shame we turned our heads
- when he bashed the next poor slob.
-
- But then his rants, obscene, unchecked
- outside our group did roam
- And he infuriated others
- outside our happy home.
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- And then "they" came, to call him out
- for his bleating blathering hate
- And Marek rushed back in the fold,
- but forgot to lock the gate.
-
- And "they" stood up and held him out
- as the black sheep of the crowd.
- And demanded an apology
- unlike we, "they" were not cowered.
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- "They" did not know, as we had found
- that Marek doesn't care
- about whom he insults, or what he insults.
- or why, or how, or where.
-
- And "they", we found, would not back down
- "They" kept up with the fight.
- "They" were not bullied by him,
- "They" did not run in flight.
-
- But instead of standing up now,
- against the evil that was our own.
- we turned on "they" invaders
- and tried to make them leave our home.
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- We allowed false allegations to fly
- confirmation we did not seek,
- and thought the accuser was Marek
- again we turned the other cheek.
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- We allowed Marek to rally our troops
- against a "common" foe.
- He made us believe "they" attacked our art,
- our hearts, our work, our souls.
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- And even as we defended him,
- he bullied us around.
- he degraded us and hated us,
- and continued to push us down.
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- We can not see, through all this hate,
- that its Marek we defend.
- So bloody, bruised, and broken,
- we just want it all to end.
-
- So when "they" leave our pastures
- we'll return to status quo
- To once again be repressed by Marek.
- Better the devil that you know.
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- Marek, pitiable at best.
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- So easy to criticize that which you know nothing about. How easy
- to point boney fingers. - Defile - Decry.
- Whine on about elitist rants that never took place.
- Failing to remember that we were were not invited, but summoned.
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- Collaborate on symbolic bullshit. fare the well 'o pitiable ones.
- forget in time that we did not make a single reference to the art
- or the artillery left to lie like so many brown leaves in fall.
- Bluster and blather, and cry into your pillows, "we were wronged".
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- your cries fall on Van Gogh ears, your screams trapped as if
- in a Munch lithograph. Prop yourself up in the saddle,
- wear a red tunic so the blood won't show, wear brown pants as well.
- light the torches as we storm the Bastille. recoil in horror ye.
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- Our jobs are done, we have quelled the monstrous net bully.
- Silence sweeps around us on our victory march within your
- castle walls. Minor skirmishes smashed. Snipers all lie dead.
- Our task now clear. Keep an eye out for the common good.
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- Insure that the monster never stirs. Allow him his prose.
- we have no qualms therein. But be ever vigilant lest from his
- frothing mouth comes the poisonous venom. spewing, gushing.
- Some may slip by, but members of our faction will always be about.
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- Shake your tiny fists as we depart. Threaten us with the same
- rules you so easily tread on. Admonish us to news.admin.
- We howl at your pitiable "Oh Yeah"'s. A childish retort is all
- we have left you. cry into your beers. Find your poetic soul there.
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- Gard "snap. snap. SNAP." Trask
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- Gardner S. Trask III trask@world.std.com
- "First .cultured man on the Internet" alt.culture.gard-trask
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- I post Followups to other people's Crossposted posts on occasion."
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