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13 Dec
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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 95 23:24:19 -0800
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: From the community-music mailing list...

Forwarded-by: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: Keith Sklower <sklower@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
Forwarded-by: PiccPete@aol.com
Forwarded-by: LAWMS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (andy)

On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my
potential-acquaintance-abuse-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 a member of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to throw
red paint at my computer, the calling birds, French hens and partridge
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.

© 1995 Peter Langston