Edku: December 1996

Move backwards to November 1996.

1.
High speed chase kills teen,
innocently driving home.
Were the cops too close?

--Harlan Harmison, hharm3@ix.netcom.com

2.
I feel terrible--
I am fed up with myself.
Could we start again?

--Mark Balas, balas@ludens.elte.hu

3.
Late night hard drinking.
Speech slurred. Aides and lobbyists
feign not to notice.

--Congressman Billybob, BillybobCG@aol.com

4.
Fine piece of humor.
Can't find home on AOL.
Who's running this joint?

--Congressman Billybob, BillybobCG@aol.com

5.
Frozen rain on limbs
Resting hard on nature's arms
It will fall again

--BKilg17517@aol.com

6.
Reagan's Star Wars lives.
TransWorld Flight 800 down.
Sad Defense mistake.

--Larry Cruikshank, laredog@primenet.com

7.
the future has ghosts
awak'ning luminaries
of promise and hope

--Mary Ellen Walsh, skating@bc.cybernex.net

8.
Oh Ur-text, what next?
The cruci-freakin'-fixion
"Now on CD Rom"??!

--Noel Kaufmann

9.
Surprise, Democrats!
Bill Clinton, Republican
Shrewd opportunist

--Allen Specht, aspecht@unlinfo.unl.edu

10.
Suppose there's no God.
Then there are no morals, too.
Hitler--a nice guy.

--Tim Spencer

11.
With a single step,
we can leap over mountains
of man's ignorance.

--J.E. Barby, trzr40b@prodigy.com

12.
A single act of
unselfish love can change an
entire loveless world.

--J.E. Barby, trzr40b@prodigy.com

13.
Ultimately one,
outstretched hand will be the bridge
to unite all men.

--J.E. Barby, trzr40b@prodigy.com

14.
As change is certain
it is our uncertainty
that pilots our change.

--J.E. Barby, trzr40b@prodigy.com

15.
Cold, hard, sheets of rain
drive the last leaves from the trees;
fall becomes winter.

--Kevin O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

16.
I read the front page
political corruption
on both left and right.

--Kevin O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

17.
Racial violence
hostage negotiations
with the terrorists.

--Kevin O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

18.
Drug use increases,
FBI arrests a spy,
actor dies, stocks up.

--Kevin O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

19.
Seems news stays the same,
month to month, year to year, too;
the world's in a mess.

--Kevin O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

20.
Yes, from time to time,
someone comes along and says
"I'll save you from this!"

--Kevin O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

21.
But things stay the same,
people are born, then they die,
the news does not change.

--Kevin O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

22.
Is there then no hope?
Mankind cannot save itself--
or that's how it seems.

--Kevin O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

23.
Ah, but what if God--
He who made us as His own
came to rescue us?

--Kevin O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

24.
Well, in fact, He did!
Jesus Christ was born as man
and He did save us!

--Kevin O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

25.
You can live this life
in light of the light to come,
and know love, joy, peace.

--Kevin O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

26.
Follow in His steps
and you will see this world changed
starting with yourself!

--Kevin O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

27.
So I thank You, Lord,
for sending Your Son to us
to give our lives hope.

--Kevin O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

28.
He shows how to love
and lays down His life for us
so we can be free.

--Kevin O'Brien, KOBrien@erols.com

29.
My brain melts down load
When my dog doo wop ditties
Near the fire hydrant

--Chris and Steph, verheyen*yknet.yk.ca@yknet.yk.ca


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