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  14.              A variety of electronic publications are available from  The 
  15.         Writer's  Exchange.   All of the works I have seen used  the  SEE 
  16.         file  viewer  from  Pinnacle Software.  This  program  scceses  a 
  17.         separate ASCII file and displays it with the use of the PG UP and 
  18.         PG DN keys, plus a "find" search facility.
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  20.              PUZZLER'S  DIGEST is concerned with word puzzles, mostly  of 
  21.         the find-a-word-in-a-letter matrix type.
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  23.              RADICAL DIALECT by Geno is a collection of poems,  primarily 
  24.         on  gay  and  political themes.  Approxomately  fifty  poems  are 
  25.         included in the collection.
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  27.              WRITER'S  EXCHANGE  is a newsletter related to  writing  and 
  28.         publishing.   It  is  available on paper and on  disk.   A  great 
  29.         number of writers contribute articles, and the subject matter  is 
  30.         broad.  In includes a listing of small publications and what they 
  31.         want for submissions.  WRITER'S EXCHANGE is published  quarterly, 
  32.         and a subscription costs $12.00.  
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  36.              Here is an excerpt from the poetry collection:
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  38.                     ( Copyrighted by the author - all rights reserved ) 
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  40.             │
  41.            ═╪════════════
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  44.             │              WE SUFFERED FOR OUR ART
  45.             │
  46.             │                 We forced ourselves
  47.                              to eat day-old cabbage
  48.                                      while
  49.                           listening to old Beatles 45s
  50.                                      while
  51.                                 the room filled
  52.                                 with thick smoke
  53.                             like some ass backwards               │
  54.                              government experiment.               │
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  57.                                                        ═══════════╪═
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  64.                     class assignment: writing original poetry
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  66.                                the english teacher
  67.                                said
  68.                                where'd you get
  69.                                all these neat
  70.                                poems?
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  72.                                i wanted to say
  73.                                the poetry fairy
  74.                                left them
  75.                                under my pillow
  76.                                while i slept
  77.                                what'd you think
  78.                                huh
  79.                                i wrote this shit
  80.                                while sitting
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  87.                                in my room
  88.                                listening
  89.                                to bob dylan
  90.                                or something?
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  92.                                but i said
  93.                                instead:
  94.                                uhhhhh?
  95.                                and mumbled:
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  97.                                oh, i think
  98.                                i thunk
  99.                                them
  100.                                up
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  114.                                and i pretended
  115.                                not to see
  116.                                the shadow
  117.                                of a doubt
  118.                                in her otherwise
  119.                                beady
  120.                                little eyes
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  122.                                i know
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  131.        ╒════════════
  132.        │
  133.        │                         4 LETTER WORD
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  135.        │                  I hate obviously cool things
  136.                         like lemonade in the summertime
  137.                                 coffee, please!
  138.                                  I hate people
  139.                               who want to be cool
  140.                           because they fake themselves
  141.                                       out
  142.                            like some mutating fungus
  143.                               that refuses to die
  144.                                but keeps growing
  145.                              more and more hideous
  146.                                   in the tray                         │
  147.                        in the bottom of the refrigerator              │
  148.                              where you never look...                  │
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  162.        ║
  163.       ─╫─────────
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  166.        ║                  SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
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  168.                         I READ THIS ON THE BATHROOM WALL
  169.                       (RIGHT AFTER I FINISHED SCRIBBLING!)
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  171.                                People are scared
  172.                                  of new ideas.
  173.                               Hell, they're scared
  174.                                   of old ideas
  175.                                 with new names!                       ║
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  184.              For more information, contact:
  185.               Gene Boone
  186.               Box 394
  187.               Society Hill SC 29593  
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