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Date:         Tue, 13 Apr 1993 17:05:02 JST
Reply-To:     WRITERS <WRITERS@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Sender:       WRITERS <WRITERS@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
From:         Mike Barker <barker@AEGIS.OR.JP>
Subject:      SUB: Fragmentation

written one time when I heard that access to writers might be going
to go away...  consider it as an early (and hopefully unneeded)
parting gift.

(today's rumor is that we may not lose our access - flip a coin,
and listen for the silence... if you can hear the sound of
one paw clapping, I'm still with you:-)

mike
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Fragmentation
m. barker
March 1993

The masks we wear at work and play
Have so little of their own to say.

Friends never seen, ghosts in the machine?
Words never heard, touching?  absurd.
Ideas never thought?  gifts freely brought.
Electrons?  bicker.  yes-no.  snicker.

Words pounding, sounding, rounding
Out a line
Meaning lost in the siren whine.

Meanings found, unmasked behind
Phosphor's flowing screen,
Glowing torch of the deep.

Farewell.
Fair well.
Far friends, be well.
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