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the 2002 calendardown in the dirt scars publications january 2002 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5

Bank Holiay, UK new year’s day New Year , Armenia, emancipation proclamation, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Bank Holiday, Scotland 1863 S. Korea Tom Thumb's Birthday 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Twelfth Day, Sweden Carl Sandburg born, 1878 Eastern Orthodox , Armenia, Ethopia James Plimpton created “guidable Man Watcher's Week parlour skates” with an India rub- ber ball. The first roller rink start- Anniversary of first Balloon Alexander Hamilton's Girst woman elected to the ed today in 1862 Elvis Presley’s Birthday Flight Clean Off Your Desk Day Birthday Senate, 1932 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

Adults Day Humanitarian Day Gulf War began Bald Eagle Appreciation Edgar Allen Poe’s birthday, Horatio Alger’s Birthday Days National Nothing Day Ben Franklin's Birthday Winnie the Pooh Day 1805 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Martin Luther National Handwriting Day Carpenter James Marshall, King Jr.’s First woman to receive a worked in a California mill Birthday medical degree in America and found a piece of gold - Australia Day, Australia observed John Hancock's Birthday starting the gold rush today Republic Day, India National Hugging Day National Pie Day in1848 National School Nurse Day 27 28 29 30 31 January is National Fiber Month. National Oatmeal Month, National Prune Breakfast Month, National Soup Month, March of Dimes Month, Cosmetology Month, National Noodle Month, Eyecare Month, Hobby Month celebra- tions Thomas Crapper Day National Kazoo Day National Puzzle Day National Popcorn Day Simon Perchik written by Racine 03-10-2001 03:35 AM ET (US)

Freedom and Strength Pilosophically speaking, freedom is strength: it is the power-- it is a virtue-- and ultimately a supreme goal. For if you are free, then you are strong. The question then is how does a human become free? There may be many different theories but most agree that to be free is to only accept what is in our control. For if you put weight into something that is not yours, then you will be disappointed i.e. not free. Freedom is being able to make your own choices-- to be able to control what you can-- and not try to control what is not yours. And what is yours? The will to choose and not to choose--- opinion. This is called free will. To put desires on things that are not in your control will bring on slavery to such things. All external things are out of the contol of the free will-- your , government, even your body. These things are not yours to control. By choices and opinions, I mean to do what you think is right according to "reason." -- this is yours and no one elses. this is the beginnings of freedom, strength and tranquility. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 20021 2

February is: , Human Relations Month, Canned Food Month, Creative Romance Month, Great American Pies Month, Whale Awareness Month, National Snack Food Month, National Cherry Month, Heart Month, Return Shopping carts to the Supermarket Month Alice Rosenbaum’s Birthday, 1905, in St. Petersburg Ground Hog Day 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Constitution Day, Mexico Nornam Rockwell’s Birthday USO Day Weatherman’s Day Waitingi Day, New Zealand Charles Dickens’ Birthday James Dean’s Birthday 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

National Women and in Sports Day Lincoln’s Thomas Edison’s Birthday, Birthday Valentine’s Day Susan B. Anthony Day , China, 1847 NAACPFounded, 1905 Race Relations Day Faschingsdienstag, Ladies Home Journal First Hong Kong National Foundation Day Day, in Georgia Jack Benny’s Birthday Germany Published in 1883 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Malcom X Assassinated, 1965 Shaheed Day, Bangladesh President’s Day First Telephone Directory George Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Lt. Col. Glenn first astronaut published today in 1878, Washington’s National PTA Day Birthday in orbit, 1962 with 50 people in it Birthday 24 25 26 27 28

Banner’s Day, Mexico Independence Day, Estonia William “Buffalo Bill” Henry Wadsworth Hadassah Day Cody’s Birthday Longfellow’s Birthday, 1807 image by Mark Graham march 2002 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2

march is: National Women's History Month, National Nutrition Month, Independence Movement National Peanut Month, National Red Cross Month, Poetry Month Day, S. Korea Peace Corps Program initi- ated by John F. Kennedy, 1961 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Independence Day, Ghana Kasmir Pulaski Day, Illinois Brooklyn born Clarence First woman to practice Byrdseye developed a before the Supreme Court method of quickly freezing Alexander Graham Bell's foods and marketed them International Working Birthday for the first time today in Women’s Day, China National Anthem Day 1930 International Women’s Day 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Anniversary of the Revolution of 1848, Scouts Day Mothering Sunday (UK) Hungary Black Press Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Ortodox Lent Birthday of Benito Juarez, International Day for the St. Patrick’s Day begins St. Joseph's Day, Spain Vernal Equinox Mexico Elimination od Racism 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Palm Sunday Independence Day, 31 Bangladesh Independence Day, Greece Ruhio Day (Hawaii) First Day of Maryland Day (in Robert Frost’s Birthday, Sunday Maryland) 1874 , Spain Battling The Senses

Burton R. Hoffmann

Have I become jaded because I have --seen too much? --heard too much? --felt too much? --tastedtoo much? --sniffed too much?

TASTE ANYONE?

So much in our society Has become cheap and tawdry. Whatever happened to taste?

Jim Dewitt Donnie Strickland

but I was really sincere at the time. Born of new fear And is that what it comes down to? and Does sincerity add truth to our lives regardless resident within the past pain, as to how wrong it eventually turns out to be? I wait and in my surroundings I writhe But I was sincere at the time. and remain faceless to society's mirrors. Everything burns like caustic poison Its simple... and resurfaces as something well meant. I want epiphanies. Its Shakespearean for a rose by another name. But epiphanies anger the substandard soul, Its simple... instead turning each moment into wraiths I want paradoxes. that will escape all healing comprehension. No wait, I have a surplus of puzzles I prefer for the oracles to remain silent: and a cavalcade of conundrums. idolatry is low and different. Silence and vacancy... Its what we do to each other that bothers me so. I just want reassurance. I want what you have. Too difficult to get over not having. Our appetites and hungers are deviant and distracting. I could elaborate but I won't. Donnie Strickland Here is something else to placate: I bleed for numerable causes, too many to name, april 2002 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6

First female mayor elected in the U.S., 1887 Arbor Day, S. Korea Chakri , april fools day Women Business Owners Martin Luther King Jr. Ch'ing Ming Festival, China, Thailand Day Assassinated, 1968 Hong Kong North Pole Discovery Day 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

The first professional base- ball team - the Cincinnati Stockings, opening game 1886 Holocaust Rememberance Daylight Savings Time Day Bataan and Corrigidor Day, Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday Begins Buddah's Birthday Phillipines Izahal Memorial Day, Israel 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Independence Day, Israel Bangla Naba Barsha (New Year), Bangladesh Give all you earned money First American Abolition to the U.S. government day, Society, 1995 I mean, Income Taxes Due Independence Day, Patriots Day (in ME and Lincoln Assassinated 1865 Birthday of Mahavir, India Astronomy Day Zimbabwe MA) 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

Professional Secretary’s Day Armenian Genocide Anzac Day, Australia, New Memorial Day, Armenia Zealand Tiradentes Day, Brazil Orthodox , Liberation Day, Italy Queen Elizabeth’s Birthday Greece Revolution Day, Portugal 28 29 30

General Prayer Day, April is: Denmark National Frozen Food Month, Latino Month, National Barbecue Month, National Humor Month, Orthodox Good Friday, Arbor Day National Duckling Month, Keep America Beautiful Month, National Garden Month Greece Children’s Day, Mexico Lag B'omer MayDay Eve, Finland Greenery Day, Japan Queens Day, Netherlands image by S. Mead Prizes

Carol Es

He gets the blue ribbon Takes the cake Elke Collins All the luck [email protected] All that crap. Suffolk, UK It should have been you. from the Add-A-Poem Guestbook All these cramps in the chest, 2-second memories, Getting Under Your Skin scarce He flirts with words and places his smilies exteriorization Wouldn't hurt anyone being so loving All at your expense. Genuine, of course, kind and caring It isn't fair Values friendship and trust - who's doubting? How you pet my hair He says he's missed out on life by being too nice & he gets the prize of my soul Not facing reality being so painfully shy When it ends, He's so vulnerable, cute and polite Can it be Catching up is what he's desperately needing Will I be alright? Don't we all - and I feel for him Will I find you with Relating to my own regrets - and I fall for him A diamond, Gazing at his varnished pic dancing in a mineral spring Letting his flattering phrases seep in & a lovely life Oh I know he's so damn smooth and charming with a love more deserved? And I'm aware he's seducing While he strolls in years But as soon as he knows he's got under my skin Arcades of phase, He sends his IMs to another thrill. tarnished metals like paper airplanes thrown in waste In a whirlwind of sad perfection. may 2002 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4

May is: Theatre Month, Older Americans Month, National Asparagus Month, Natinal Photo Month, , Bank Holiay, UK National Egg Month, Social Science Books Month Switzerland Constitution Day, Japan Labour Day May Day Holiday (UK) New Year Holiday, Armenia, Chinese Youth Day, China Goose Day Leonardo Da Vinci’s Hong Kong, New Zealand, Rhode Island Independence Orthodox Easter, Greece Birthday S. Korea Day 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Orthodox Easter , Mexico Mother’s Day, Guatemala, Children’s Day, S. Korea Nurse’s Day Mexico Coronation Day, Thailand Children’s Day anniversary of Liberation Day, Netherlands May Day Liberation Day, France, cross country rail trans- National Day of Prayer Early Bank Holiday National Day of Prayer Norway Ascension Day portation D-Day 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Limerick Day Armed Forces Day Armed ForcedsDay Ascension Day Bob & Judy’s Wed First woman to scale My. International Museum Day Mother;s Day Anniversary Everest, 1975 Constitution Day, Norway Pope John Paul IIBirthday 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Scott and Ning Basinger’s Wed Anniv Commemorative Day of the African Liberation Day Revolution of 1810, Africa Day, Zimbabwe Malcom X’s Birthday Whitmonday Iquique’s Naval Combat National Maritime Day Argentina Independence Day, Jordan Whitsunday () Victoria Day (Canada) Day, Chile Whitsunday Victoria Day, Canada Lunar Eclipse 26 27 28 29 30 31

Corpus Cristi Day Harvard founded, 1636, originally to educate Walt Whitman’s Birthday, Trinity Sunday Memorial Day Puritan Ministers 1819 John Wayne’s Birthday Spring Bank Holiday Spring Bank Holiday, UK World No-Tobacco Day Jim Dewitt

Past, Present, Future

Burton R. Hoffmann

When one grows older, Does he remember more? Do the young ever think about the past? Or are they too much involved with the present? Or wish it was the future? Thinking about the future Can be alarming to those of us past our prime. The Box

Elise Valentie

Im all alone in this box, In it's deepest darkest most coldest corner, Whail everyone else is happily sitting on their platforms well above this box in the warmth and light of the sun, Their platforms are so thick they seem to be unbreakable, But we all know they'll be back, One day their platform will just dissapare from underneath them, And they'll be right back where they started, In the deepest darkest corners of their own little worlds wallowing in their problems and dreanched in self pity, With a piercing thorn in their side, A thorn so deep it may never be removed, Right now they may not have as many thorns as me or the skin may have healed over so well scars harldy show, But their there their never gone, Because sadness is never gone, It will always be burried deep within us, One day they'll be back and the blood will be freash and the thorns ten times deeper, "Welcome to our world of infinate sadness" Ill say, "i knew you'd be back soon" And welcome them with open arms. june 2002 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 Marilyn Monroe’s Birthday International Children’s Day, China Bank Holiday (Republic of Madaraka Day, Kenya Ireland) Constitution Day, Denmark Memorial Day, S. Korea 8 Republic Day Bank Holiday Mother’s Peace Day Queen's Birthday, New Career Nurse Assistants Day Donut Day Revolution Day, Ghana National Yo-Yo Day Zealand 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Dan O’Brien’s Bday Arab Revolt and Army Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Jordan Children’s Day China, Hong Kong Portugal Day, Portugal Independence Day, Reaffirmation of Argentine Judy Garland’s Birthday Phillipines Rights over the Malvinas Donald Duck’s Birthday Muslim New Year Interracial Day Islands, Argentina Magna Carta Day 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

Summer begins Children’s Day National Juggling Day Cat Stevens’ Cindi Lauper, ’s Day National Day, Ireland First American Woman in birthday, 1947 George Clinton and Lindsay First woman in space, 1963 Night of the Midnight Sun space (Sally Ride), 1983 Flag Day, Argentina Summer Solstice Wagner’s birthday 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

Midsummer Night’s Eve, Korean War starts, 1950 Latvia George Michael’s birthday, National Holiday, , Estonia 1963 Luxembourg Midsummer Eve, Finland Midsummer Day, Finland, Mick Jagger’s birthday National Happy Birthday St. Peter and St. Paul Day, Victoria Day, Estonia St. John Baptist Sweden 1943 Day Chile 30

June is: National Black Music Month, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Month, Cat Month, National Papaya Month, Zoo and Aquarium Month, Rivers Month, June Dairy Month, Safe Driver's Month, Turkey Lover's Month, National Rose Month and the birthday/anniversary month of Scars Publications and “Children, Churches and Daddies” magazine, 1993 Simon Perchik july 2002 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6

Independence Anniversary of the Day Founding of the Communist Phillipine/American Party, China President Garfield Shot Friendship Day, Phillipines Canada Day, in Canada today in 1881 Louis Armstrong's Birthday 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Public Holiday, Grest Britian Independence Day, Battle of Boyne Bank Argentina Holiday (N. Ireland) Irish Orangeman's Day 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

First A-bomb Test, 1945 National Day, France Man's First Moon Landing - Women’s Convention Bastille Day, France Apollo II Constitution Day, S. Korea Anniversary, 1845 Moon Walk Day 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

National Women’s Hall of Fame Dedicated, 1979 National Day, Belgium Pied Piper of Hamlin Day St. James Day, Spain 28 29 30 31

July is: July Belongs to Blueberries Month, National Baked Bean Month, National Hot Dog Month, Anti-Boredom Month, National Ice Cream Month, National Picnic Month

WWI began today in 1914 written by melancholia Why would I be a communist? Well, you must consider where I live and work. In this area, people are so inbred (not I, however) and ill read that anything unpatriotic is practically satanic. I have been called a communist for expressing how limited our freedom is, because some redneck jackass thinks he knows more than I, when he's nothing but a dirty man. You wouldn't think there's a lot of 1st the dark ages of women's liberation. my chain is the one store that is allowed to amendment fodder working at a conven- Everyday, I see ragged housewives walking sell this lighter after the two and a half ience store... in, some haggard and afraid to look me in months it has been on the shelf. Why is Lots of situations dujour... the eye, some in a huge hurry to have the this? All of the other chains were solicited One of my favorites envolves a certain old man's dinner on the table, and some by the conservative community so prevalent lighter that has a woman's bikini-clad torso just reminiscent of days past. I see how they in this neck of the woods, and they backed on it. When you push down the little button act about certain issues and I know that down from selling the controversial lighters. thingee that lights it (Sorry, I don't know they aren't happy. I know what they tell me It was pulled from the shelves because of the names of the lighter parts.) the nipple at times is not what they really think. But the negative portrayal of women. Although area and the vaginal area light up and my job is to get them in and out with their I agree with this interpretation of the silent blink for a few seconds. The lighter does not goods and not meddle in someone else's lighter, I disagree with it's censorship. have a woman's head on it. Instead the affairs, so I refrain from doing so. Wasn't this the country founded on the flame comes out where the head should be. I hate that little lighter. principle of freedom? This mute little lighter says a lot about my I hate what it symbolizes and what it imp- Don't we have a 1st amendment protecting working environment. One thing it caters to ies. our freedom of speech? is the constant group of drunk and horny I hate it's cute, little, headless body with the Isn't taste irrelevant to this whole situation? men who frequent my store. Without saying unrealistic proportions disrespectfully So, while I hate the message the lighter a word it communicates what all of the men decked out in a (god help me) polka dot sends people, I like the fact that I am free think they know about women: we are just bikini. to sell cheap, tasteless crap to the masses. It a body. No head and no feet. No thinking But at the same time, I love that lighter. doesn't make me the happiest person in the abilities and no way to support ourselves. You see, the convenience store I work at has world that people are so disgusting, but at Only in Texas it said across the torso. chains all over the county and most of least we are free to be disgusting. Only in Texas would we still be caught up in southeast Texas. Out of all of these chains, 2002 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 August is... friendship day National Water Quality Month, National People’s Liberation Army Founding Anniversary, China Recruitment Month, National Catfish Month, Summer Bank Holiday, National Canning Month, American Artists Ireland, UK Appreciation Month, National Sandwich Month Civic Holiday, Canada National Day, Switzerland Jerry Garcia born, 1942 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

National Mustard Day Summer Bank Holiday, Garfield the cat’s friend carol trisko's bday Great Britian Lucille Ball’s Birthday American Day Odie;s birthday National Day, Singapore 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Feast of the Assumption General San Martin Day, Watts Riots Anniversary, Argentina 1965 Independence Day, India Armed Forces Day, Liberation Day, S. Korea Elvis passed away today in Zimbabwe Heroe’s Day, Zimbabwe 25th anniversary of the 1979 King Hussein’s Accession to The Queen’s Birthday, Middle Children’s Day Vidtory Day (in Rhode Woodstock concert Bukowski’s, Madonna’s and dave and gigi the throne, Jordan Thailand Annie Oakley’s Birthday Island) Assumption Day Michael Jackson’s Birthdays seng's wed anniv 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

Amelia Earhart became the first woman to make a non- stop flight across the U.S. today, 1932. She made the trip from Los Angeles to Bad Poetry Day Hug your Girlfriend or Newark in 19 hours, 5 min- Women’s Voting Rights Day Hawaii’s anniversary St. Stephen’s Day, Hungary Count Basie’s birth d a y , 1904 Boyfriend Day utes. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Late Summer Holiday (UK Elvis Costello’s birthday, Women’s Equality Day Dream Day not Scotland) 1954 Late Summer Holiday, Great National Heroes Day, Liberation Day, Hong Kong Van Morrison’s birthday, Kiss-and-Make-Up Day Britian Phillipines More Herbs Less Salt Day 1945 2002 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Independence Day, Brazil National Frisbee Day Fathe’s Day, Australia, New First co-ed college started Grandma Moses’ Birthday World War II began, 1939 Zealand today 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Patsy Cline’s Birthday Star Trek Day Teacher’s Day, China National Pet Memorial Day Day 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Independence Day, Armenia First Day of Thanksgiving Day, Phillipines Citizenship Day Mid Autumn Festival, China, American Business Wome’'s Day National Hispanic Heritage Independence Day, Mexico First black woman crowned Hong Kong First woman was confirmed as Month (9/1-15) Raspect for the Aged, Japan Miss America, 1983 Independence Day, Chile Army Day, Chile Equal Rights Party founded 1884 a Supreme Court Justice today 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

National Good Neighbor Jim Henson’s Birthday Day Francis Scott Key Henry Ford announced Fitsgerald’s birthday, 1896 today in Michigan that the Autumnal Equinox, Japan National Bluebird of 5 day work week would be Shamu’s Birthday Simhat Torah Autumn begins today National Day, Saudi Arabia Happiness Day the new standard George Gershwin’s Birthday Black College Day Confucius’ Birthday 29 30 September is: All American Breakfast Month, Cat Health Month, National Cholesterol Awareness and Education Month,Piano Month, Organic Harvest Month, Mascellaneous Chicken Month, Courtesy Month, National Rice Information: Month, National Cable T.V. Month, , Library Card Month Goose Day Chinese Horoscope who's your daddy? your daddy's who? from the Add-A-Poem Guestbook: Georganna Christopher Mulrooney [email protected] Kentucky how like commissars the anchors are Still. how like smiling little commissars Leaves dance a slow sway or weeping weeping little commissars but their music is not felt. It's the so-called how close the New York news is to a POTUS Œputer "calm before the storm" - glorified. and bronzes

Air hangs well you have the mob ruling anonymously dripping with dread. until an oligarch finesses a coalition Suffocation threatens he liquidates of course if sanctuary does not and then you have to kiss his ass make itself known..... personally And, if sanctuary does not enchant, the sharp sting of certain doubts clap clap harder from the clouds the cow1s in the garden will wear away any sink me Darwinian tendencies. sink me Music will halt. Leaves will fall away hoist me now with no rhythm to control them.... hoist me and the storm will rage. rinse and repeat 2002 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday oc t ob e r is : Youth Against Tobacco Month, Brea s t 1 2 3 4 5 Cancer Awa r eness Month, Family History Month, Energy Awa r eness Month, International Microwave Month, Co-Op National Federation Day, S. Korea Awa r eness Month, Festival of Penha Month (Brazil), National Tag der Deutschen Einheit and De s s e r t Month, National Kitchen and Bath Month, Adopt-A- Day of Unification, Germany Sh e l t e r -Dog Month, National Apple Jack Month, National Book Birthday of Mahatma Francisco Morazan Holiday, Fair Month, National Dental Hygiene Month, Domestic Vio l e n c e National Children’s Day Ghandi, India Honduras Awa r eness Month, Depression and Education Awa re n e s s National Day, China First black Supreme Court Health Day Republic Day, Portgual Month, Disability Employment, Awa r eness Month ... Independence Day, Cyprus Justice sworn in, 1967 World Habitat Day Tecumseh Death, 1813 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Missouri Day, White Sunday, American Samoa Armed Forces Day, Egypt Physical Culture Day, Japan Cirio de Nazare, Brazil German American Day Lief Erikson Day, Iceland Thanksgiving Day, Canada ColuColumbus Day, Chile, Mexico Ivy Day, Ireland Alphabet Day, Korea Day of the Discovery of National Holiday, Spain Alfred Lord Tennyson James Earl Carter born 1924 John Lennon’s birthday, 1940 America, Argentina of the American Our Lady Aparecida’s Day, Death, 1892 Armed Forces Day, Korea Fire Prevention Day Moi Day, Kenya Revolution founded 1890 Brazilmbus Day 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 (Observed) Thanksgiving Day (Canada) Ch’ung Yeung Festival, China Dictionary Day Persons Day, Canada Marie Osmond, Paul Simon Bald is Beautiful Day Boss’ Day, Canada St. Luke: Feast Day (singer) and Margaret Edward Estlin Cummings Greenwich Village Poet First birth control clinic National Heroes Day, Jamaica Mike Ditka born 1939 , Missouri Thatcher’s birthdays birthday, 1894 Laureate Contest Day founded, 1916 Black Poetry Day Day (in Alaska) Evaluate Your Life Day 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Geoffrey Chaucer died, National Day, Austria Anniversary of the 1400 Mule Day Revolution of 1956, First Female FBIAgent: Horseless Carriage Day Kenyatta Day, Kenya National Holiday, Holy See Hungary 1972 Hillary Rodham Clinton, Pat Revolution Day, Guatemala National Day, Somalia Annette Funicello’s birthday, Chulaongkorn Day, Thailand United Nations Day Sourest Day Sajak and Jaclyn Smith Overseas Chinese Day, Taiwan 1942 Mother-in- Labour Day, New Zealand Retrocession Day, Taiwan born today

27 28 29 30 31 oc t ob e r is : Campaign for Healthier Babies Month, Gourme t Ad v e n t u r es Month, Lupus Awa r eness Month, National Clock Month, National Liver Awa r eness Month, National Pizza Month, National Car Ca r e Month, National Pasta Month, Computer Learning Month, Theodore Roosevelt’s Labour Day, New Zealand Po p c o r n Month, Seafood Month, Consumer Information Month, Birthday Bank Holiday, Great Britian Stock Market Crash, 1929 Bank Holiday, Ireland National SIDS Awa r eness Month, National AIDS Awa r eness Month, Nationla Day, Grenadines National Holiday, Greece National Holiday, Turkey Reformationstag/Day of National Sarcastics Awa r eness Month, Polish American Heritage Last Quarter the Erie Canal opened Wild Foods Day Reformation, Germany Month, Spinal Health Month, Vegetarian Awa r eness Month, Navy Day today, 1825 WOW founded, 1966 Mischief Night UNICEFDay In t e r national Association of Culinary, Professionals' Cookbook Month Chinese Horoscope november 2002 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2

November is: All Saints Day Hunger Education Month, National Aviation History Month, Black Solidarity Day Child Safety Month, Jewish Book Month, Good Nutrition Month, Standard Time begins today National Hospice Month , Mexico President’s State of the All Souls Day Nation Message, Mexico Day of the Dead, Mexico 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Culture Day, Japan First woman elected to First Female Governor elect- Election Day Congress, 1916 ed, 1924 All Saints Day, Finland, Hug-a-Bear Sunday National Solidarity Day, Sandwich Day National Unity Day, Italy Sweden Saxophone Day Bangladesh 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

marine corps bday Louis Glass installed the Veteran’s Day first jukebox today in Rememberance Day, Proclamation of the 1889, with 4 listening tubes Australia, Canada Republic, Brazil controlled by a separate Birthday of Gurunanak, Armistice Day, Belgium, France First black mayor of a major King Hussein’s Birthday, Dynasty Kings Birthday, nickel in the slot device India God Bless America Day U.S. city elected 1967 Jordan Belgium Buß-und Bettag, Germany 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Anniversary of the Revolution of 1910, Mexico Independence Day, Latvia National Bible Sunday President Kennedy Homemade Bread Day Mickey Mouse’s Birthday Repentance Day, Germany World Hello Day Assassinated 1963 Labor Thanksgiving, Japan 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

First Day of Bonifacio Day, Phillipines Thanksgiving St. Andrew’s Day Day Mark Twain born 1865 Simon Perchik

image by Cheryl Townsend written by melancholia And I being stronger To fraternize Will rob you and others of your lives, To the other MR. COCKROACH Two dimensional Mr. Cockroach Humans on your different plane Perhaps I look at things in the wrong --- Who everyday try to sustain light, The status MR. COCKROACH Of late I see The fabric I'm wrong, but you're so right, An entrance as grand as a hurricane The static MR. COCKROACH Ripping strands of grass out And their 14-free eliminated rights You live as such a misfit Like hair on a scratchy wool sweater Crawling around,trying not to get hit * --- By a flying shoe or maybe a book Rip these people out of their ruts I would think it took And place them into cozy little The same founders were vocal about Courage to know you're low, pigeon holes not wanting to pay taxes and owning Loathing for humans so Divided by dotted lines slaves.....but I could be called a Perfect their flatulence doesn't stink, Brainwashed into certain roles "communist heathen" for that Yet so superficial, they don't think But do not color on the outside (although I'm not sure how, but yes About those so much smaller Do not try to socialize it has happened in the past.). And don't want to be a "baller" Or even worse, And those who are clever Enough to try a new endeavor... But I bet you're not thinking about this, MR. COCKROACH You're only scared of death's kiss, MR. COCKROACH Like Darwin says Only the strongest survive, december 2002 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Advent Independence Day, Portugal St. Nicholas' Day First black woman the edit Constitution Day, Spain a major newspaper, 1992 Independence Day, Finland Pearl Harbor Day 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 The first motel (the Motel Inn) was opened today in Obisbo, California Toys For Tots Anniversary Jamhuri Day, Kenya Constitution Day, Thailand Our Lady of Guadalupe Day, Human Rights Day Mexico St. Lucy’s Day Emily Elizabeth Dickinson Virgin Mary Day, Argentina Susan B. Anthony dollar (Christian Holy Day) born, 1830 Poinsettia Day coined, 1978 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Forefather’s Day Humbug Day National Flashlight Day Longest night of the year 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Kwanzaa (African- AmericanHoliday), through December 31 Return the gifts you don’t like day run frantically to the store , Canada Winter Solstice Emperor’s Birthday, Japan to buy presents day Christmas Day St. Stephen’s Day

29 30 31 Monday’s Child is fair of face. Tuesday’s Child is full of grace. December 31st Revolution, December is: Wednesday’s Child is full of woe. Ghana Holidays are Pickle Days Thursday’s Child has far to go. Ayn Rand completed Universal Human Rights Month Friday’s Child is loving and giving. The Fountainhead, 1942 Bingo Month Saturday’s Child has to work for its living. New Year’s Eve But the child that is born on the Sabbath Day is fair and wise and good and gay. Rizal Day, Phillipines Have a wonderful new year Jim Dewitt Farzana Moon

Fairest of Deaths silent prayers Oh, these serpents of pain Blasted by their own sting Angel Still writhe and blaspheme I lived my life by what was given to me, Lowering their poisonous tongues but it was never much to last long. On the seat of holiness my and I hid from people everywhere, Where my sacred Muse tried to hide from pain as we ran into it. Reigning in his jewel-chest of Time we always had a mother just never a father, Witholds the scepter of wrath she switched from man to man onto another. While inside this shrine I always prayed for a better life and father, Rude serpents they were always silent prayers I never let her know. Coil and uncoil she married one day and almost died another, my step-father said her loved her by hitting her daily. Weaving a noose for my agony she always told everyone she loved her two kids, And I in utter obedience she loved them enough to let them be abused and watch. Kneel and pray I prayed for a new family and for someone to love, Sl e e p - wa l king towar d my fai r gui ll o ti n e and I kept it silent and no one ever knew my thoughts. One lethal blow one unlucky day this man tried to force himself on me, And my severed head flies and mother would believe him over me when told. To kiss the feet of my Muse-god I was a liar and a home wrecker they said, Fairest of deaths I prayed my silent prayers to stop the wrenching hurt, How wretechedly you reward God was the only one who heard my prayers, then he answered them. The lovers most true