Fun_People Archive
14 Dec
12 PC days
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 94 18:13:49 PST
To: Fun_People
Subject: 12 PC days
Forwarded-by: lanih@info.Berkeley.EDU (J. Lani Herrmann)
Forwarded-by: Mark Witteman <witteman@iii.com>
Forwarded-by: "Marjorie McPherson"@pmdf.lane.edu
******** The 12 Days, Deconstructed *******************
On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival,
my potential-aquaintence-rape-survivor gave to me,
TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming.
ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of
members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called for in
their
union contract even though they will not be asked to play a note...)
TEN melanin-deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the patriarchal
ruling class system leaping,
NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression,
EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing milk-products
from enslaved Bovine-Americans,
SEVEN endangered swans swimming on federally protected wetlands,
SIX enslaved fowl-Americans producing stolen nonhuman animal products,
FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic
incarceration,
(NOTE: after member of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to throw
red paint at my computer, the calling birds, French hens and partridige
have been reintroduced to their native habitat. To avoid further
animal-American enslavement, the remaining gift package has been
revised.)
FOUR hours of recorded whale songs,
THREE deconstructionist poets,
TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed tree carcasses
and a Spotted Owl activist chained to an old-growth pear tree.
© 1994 Peter Langston