R A L P H The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities Number 126 Late Winter 2004 - 2005 |
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Toast
Memoirs of a Dwarf
Great Reviews of the Past
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LETTERS
ARTICLE Part II
READINGS When the Aliens Took the Boy Apart A New Updated Mother Goose
POETRY THE OFFICIAL RALPH
GENERAL INDEX
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21 Articles, Reviews, Poems, Readings
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Garden Insects of North America
The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs
"Agro-businesses,
despite the bad rap,
are not the major
chemical polluters in America.
Your average homeowner/gardener
uses almost three-quarters of the
insect pest-control poisons
sold in the United States."
"After we put
dear old Dad
in the ground, Toast gets quite lively.
In fact, your reviewer would have preferred
to have planted the old bastard
around page 20
instead of page 200."
At the Sun King's Court
"The oldest of old wheezes
has to do with the dwarf
that went around sticking his nose
in everybody's business.
If we are to believe the stories
related by Weidner's narrator,
it's literally true."
Bugs, Bites, and Bowels
"The disease we must all avoid,
at all costs, is malaria.
2,700,000 succumb to the disease each year.
Malaria mosquitoes 'hunt from sundown
at ankle level and they like
sweaty feet.'"
Caesar's Column
A Home at the
End of the World
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004
Maori Tattoos
Reginald A. Fessenden
The Deluged Civilization of the Caucasus Isthmus
The Cataract Blues
Part I
"They have this tiny mixmaster
they jab in your eyeball,
and they mush up your lens,
then they suck the muck out
with a mini-Hoover vacuum,
and then they jam in
a new plastic lens.
It's a lead-pipe cinch."
"Oh sure,
using corrective lenses,
with my new plastic eye,
I can spot the fleas on the ass
of a gnat-catcher perched in a treetop
a mile away. But not being
much of a birdwatcher by trade,
it does me little good."
AIDS and Big Brother
"I mad at him.
I be tired and diseased and
I ain't even good-looking no more.
I got a right to be left alone.
I think, why he messing with me, anyhow?
He so hard up
he got to make it with an HIV lady?
Huh, dumb kid."
"The left kidney
they lifted out and
replaced with a big green emerald ---
where could they have gotten it? ---
all faceted and glittering.
The right kidney
they sliced out more neatly,
and stuffed a blue forty-watt light bulb
in its place."
"'Please don't call us that,'
said his biological but not spiritual son.
'We have changed our names
to symbolize the birth of our new consciousness
and to separate ourselves
from our heartless, exploitative upbringing.'"
Love, When I Die
"Don't shout, love, that you got along with me
And that without me you are like a book without a cover,
Nor begin, with a heart-rending voice,
to divulge the details of my secret life."
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