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               issue #10 ---------------------------- 7/96            
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                     "rapeman consults the i ching"



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this is from "the frogs" on their album "my daughter the broad" 
the lines in quotes were said by what seems to be an 70-80 year old man.

_where's jerry lewis_

where's jerry lewis when you need them and?
where's jerry lewis when no one gives damn...
there's my man up on the stage,
and with the children... about four in age.
the crazy, the crippled, but the lovely
and young, and wild, and lovely
"and crippled"
and crippled
"and crippled"
it's a crime
their lovely
"and lovely"
where's jerry lewis who's on the stage...soon 
who's coming up...
"copping a feel... from a crippled baboon."
i'll give my money to...
any baboon who's crazy enough to win my money
and there's a cripple so i give some more 
oh, there's a fiver for you son
i love you..
"i love you, too"
you lovely crippled boy
"crippled"
you lovely crippled boy
"crippled motherfucker"
where's jerry lewis when you need them and
come labor day cheer.
where's jerry lewis.
"wheelchair blues"
where's jerry lewis.
"winner.  you're a real winner."
where's jerry lewis.

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it's been a really long time since i actually wrote anything, much less for
this zine.  i've been really busy lately.  reading vonnegut and acting
important in my work environment.  acting important more or less because i
suppose that the busier and more serious i look, the lesser my chances of
being fired for laziness.  it's 1:00pm and i've been up since 7:00am, having
had my full 8 hours of sleep.  i'm still struggling to stay awake.  maybe i
have mono.  maybe it's the experiments.  i think i'm just lazy.  laziness is
my raison d'etre.

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i've decided that geripe is now at an empasse.  as i've been fiddling with
the i ching as of late, i think it would be appropriate to consult it on this
matter.  here i go:

<wait while i find my hexagram> 
             
earth, eh?  it looks like this:
                         ________    ________
                         ________    ________
                         ________    ________
                         ________    ________
                         ________    ________
                         ________    ________

my hexagram is earth for this particular circumstance.  the earth
hexagram, strangely enough, is made up of two earth trigrams, pure yin
(broken line).  so by consequence, my trigram is made up entirely of yin.
i can't roll anything about yin.  as yin can be interpereted as female, maybe
the i ching is trying to tell me something.  or maybe it's just a reflection
of what has been on my mind all day... week... month... year. 
             
according to thomas cleary (the translator of the i ching i'm consulting who 
i'm not so inclinded to trust as i not being the sinologist that he is have 
found mistakes in his work) earth represents receptivity.  maybe this has 
something to do with me being receptive to my own ideas.  recently, i have 
been laconic of thought.  perhaps i need to give those thoughts more 
attention in order to allow them to develop.  
             
my more latent question as to whether i should even continue seems to be
ignored.  it was a stupid question anyway.

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as with everything that i put in here, feel free to ask me questions relating
to the issue.  

send me your text.  if i like them they will be published.  

contact me at the distro sites:  
                                vip------------------(214)494-1024
                                negativland----------(214)867-1914
                
although you can't contact me
through these bbses any longer
due to lack of funds, call them
nonetheless:                    hacker's haven-------(303)343-4053
                                one jillion degrees--(817)732-3457
                                the nine hells-------(817)346-3370

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