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- ATI82. 6-17-97. 11:45 pm.
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- Prime Anarchist here.
- My life was threatened this afternoon just north of the Crandon Exxon mine
- site. I'm going to type in my journal notes from that verbatim, and then
- publish a friend's poem, and one of mine: and call that an ATI. All the
- other stuff I planned for this issue will have to go in issue #83 this
- Sunday. To quote teenagers (don't laugh, you were one once too) "SSS;" or
- "sorry so short/sloppy".
-
- A remembrance by PA
- Today I will be spending a day or two at SEAcotopia, SEAC's annual national
- gathering and the thought crossed my mind of a guy I met at Rutger's '88
- about when ATI issue 1 came out. He had curly black hair and "average"
- clothes on. What made him stick out in my mind was his Tandy 100 laptop. I
- owned a model 200, but opted to not bring it along.
- "What the heck you doing," elicited, "I'm writing a book about activism."
- Nothing more. 4 or 5 years later I saw him again at SEAC's annual convention
- in Boulder, Colorado. Someone else asked him that time, same answer. He's
- still writing a book about activism.
- I'd sure like to know who he is. I was tempted to ask him if he was still
- writing that same book or starting another. Boyee, if I see him tonite I
- may just have to ask, "you still writing that book???"
-
- Unable to find the SEAC campsite I flagged down a passing 4X4 to ask if
- they knew. Bad idea.
- "There's an environmental group camping out here on this road somewhere
- and they'd said look for signs, but I didn't see any," I asked. "Any idea
- where they might be?"
- "You're with them?" he asked me, and before I could finish saying not
- as a member but visiting, he gritted his teeth and said, "get the fuck away
- from me before you get shot." He popped the clutch and skidded off on the
- gravel road behind me about 45 miles per. I continued on thinking if I saw
- it ahead I'd go in, but I would not double back, fear of another skirmish
- like that. There was a bar a mile or two ahead so I asked in there. No one
- knew or none were talking. I went back out to my car. I was just wondering
- if I ought to check for sabotage when I saw that same "four-by" doubling
- back toward me. I put a hand up to show no weapons and get ready for
- whatever ghandian conflict resolution I could muster up on an empty stomach.
- I had to say I was writing ABOUT SEAC (student environmental action) and
- not "with" them which is partially true, or deliberately out of context or
- something. One's a logger and the other's the son of a logger it turned out.
- The logger's about my age the other went probably about 17 yrs old. My age
- had a long ponytail under a baseball cap like I used to wear, the younger
- guy had a complete skin like I wear now.
- Once I got rapor with them the one who'd threatened me said, "mostly what
- I meant back there was there's other loggers all over there who WILL shoot
- you." Then the other guy told me a bunch of stories about the terrible
- things "them people" did to his dad like let the air out of his tires.
- "We call them TREE HUGGERS," the threatener said. "They're in there," he
- told me, "you'll find 'em. I just don't know exactly where, and don't care."
- I told him I was just going to head home and say I couldn't find them. I
- asked him where County G was to route 55 and he was happy to tell me. Shook
- my hand and exchanged first names and everything. (no. I'm not ABOUT to
- print his information here.)
- They're probably still in that bar talking me up among the 10 or 12
- stools I'd asked while taking a leak just before that second encounter.
- "There's some environment group in there on Double Bend road I'm s'posed
- to be writin' about," I asked the bartender. "Any idea what sight they
- might be on? I couldn't find any signs."
- She gave me the "no" that seemed like "I know but I'm not tellin."
- "Said there'd be signs to follow," I tried. "you didn't hear anythin'?"
- "Nuh uh," she said nodding "no" with her head while her hands and eyes
- told me "yes; but don't push it." So, I gave up and went outside which
- was where I saw the two guys driving up. I think they were more scared of
- me than I was of them. Come to think of it, I wonder if they were scared
- other loggers might shoot-first-ask-questions-later regarding their
- ass-oh-see-ate-in' with the likes of me.
- Hunter S. Thompson would've gone back in that bar, drank some wild turkey
- and grapefruit juice, then back in that forest, but then HST carries
- artillery. I don't/won't.
-
- CONNECTICUT SPRING '97 by Ray Ellis.
- It's spring here in Southern New England
- Last week the hills were mossed with tree-top
- Each tree-top a lacework of delicate green
- or red; a mauve, but alive!
- the greens were set in random patternlets
- across the hilltops in the lower connecticut
- river valley.
-
- when topping a ridge
- in my car:
-
- the wind shaped swell-wave
- across the green lacery
-
-
-
- JOURNAL POEM 12 from the selfpublished (150 copies) "I Slurp My Coffee." by
- Marc Harry Ehrenfrucht.
-
- Our Revolution
- Seventeen seventy six:
- Merely a French coup?
-
- Dress loud and tip big.
- Waiting for payday for a
- Pepper pizza pie.
-
- John Waters says he
- Wants to be Walt Disney for
- Peculiar children.
-
- Vegetarian
- Chili is just perfect for
- Personality.
-
- Sometimes I put too
- Many haikus in each poem;
- sometimes I do not.
-
- Banana, cottage cheese, grapefruit,
- Tuna sandwich, homefries and coffee.
-
- Sleeping too deeply to dream.
- Airborne, infantry, cattle rancher
- Or rodeo clown?
-
- Woke up one morning
- Wanting to run away and
- Join the circus:
- Then I got in my
- Army uniform and
- Reported for work.
-
- I'll see that when I
- Believe it. A play on words;
- And also a haiku.
-
- Easter on the Pearl Street Mall,
- Rich carries a piano on his
- Back. 4 wheel dolly and a
- Shoulder harness.
- Upright piano on the
- Sidewalk for tips.
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- That was ATI issue # 82 and I was your host the Prime Anarchist
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