Story Archives 2004

by Joe B.

S.S.M. & Stem Cells Which is Bigger Deal?

Ok S.S.M’s are still going on by appointment and the world has not been swallowed up,covered in green-purple slime and spit out at least for now.

Protester pro and con argue both on the steps and inside gleaming floors,ceiling,and halls of City Hall.

Its all so Whole-new- set-of-problems-time as everyone across the country is up in arms over Same Sex Marriages and yet what does it all mean?

In my humble opinion it’s the old guard refusing to budge as change surrounds and supplants what has always been to many plain: Marriage between a man and a woman forming a unit with the begetting of children.

The problem with that premise is the origin of marriage wasn’t about of two souls united in the name of whichever deity chosen but a series of commitments,promises, laws,obligations, contracts,and less we forget ownership of one half said union woman.

Yes,women were seen as chattel and to married was for them slavery sometimes condemned to a living hell of forced sex by way of rape and beatings and bearing children became for many a death sentence and remember male children were and still somewhat to this day valued higher then females yet without those females no children male or female would be born.

There is also parentage.

While men married women for maid service and children it was also for property hence the all important dowry from females as payment by parents,or father,mother showing monetarily the wife’s worth.

Men had it good, women had as short a life span as men due to rape by either spouse’s or soldiers in war doing their popular and traditional rape and pillage conquest for lands and power directive.

Men cohabited openly with mistresses without threat from wife,girl friends,of any laws but some paid with their lives by slow poison,from male related or strangers seeing the wrong correcting in unique ways.

A few thousand years of battering,being brutalized for their sex,legalized infidelity,made women silent going inward talk with others in similar circumstances.

Between church and state,custom,and inertia it looked that for all time women and slaves would forever be chained to harsh unfair laws regarding them.

It took centuries but both groups slowly win their freedom of sorts in fits and starts.

This union of two codified into law blessed by holy mother church with all is contracts and condition no longer confines women to early death in youth or from child bearing now that some power lay in their own hands and bodies though churches,judges still without knowing the slightest way human female minds and bodies function still want to have power over them but those dark days are done.

The laws against same sex unions either casual or committed companionship threatens the foundation of marriage only because individuals in positions of power have personal animosity against the very concept or as witnessed by band of men or women going have Lesbian and homosexuals.

I have yet to hear of bands of gay men and women going after straight men and woman to harass and in hyper angered state commit murder because they personally cannot stand seeing people of different or alternative lifestyles.

Think of it people from other places across the Bay Area take their time to drive,use muni,Bart,or if they live in the city walk to Castro or any other city or town to go after people living their lives to use fists,knives, baseball bats on people who normally they would never have contacted with!

The old "God made Adam & Eve not Adam & Steve" or
Man woman make children Man and man make disease is false because AIDS is a recent phenomenon there has always been gay men and women through out this world at all times in history-read it sometime its called learning about the known and unknown.

And unfortunately for straight folks all two gay men need do to have children is adopt or have a trusted female friend have sex a few times or have one or both males sperm for artificial insemination until sperm meets egg and the age old process begin until a baby is born.

Lesbians can reproduce (they still have all the equipment) for reproduction all that’s needed is a willing and trustworthy male or maybe one or both women take turns with the artificial insemination method.

So the Man w/Man–Women w/Women=disease is a false premise both same sex couples can reproduce they just cannot with each other and need a third party but it is possible.

I believe the big deal is exclusivity men and woman use to be special because they can for a unit and create life.

But now that both gay man and women can do it also makes the man and woman exclusivity seem just an older tried and true way.

Maybe if gays are married and are entitled to all the benefits regular couples have no one will see marriage as such a big scary step and lets face it two people joined in marriage is not for the purpose of having kids but for two to be life long soul mates with or without children.

50% of marriages last only 1.5 years.(now don’t quote me on that.

When one comes from a broken home they really don’t want to try marriage for a long time because of the pain they suffered from the divorce.

I say let ‘em (Lesbian women,Gay men)get married, have children,join PTA, [Parent’s Teacher’s Association] pay taxes on homes like everyone else and I can predict within the first decade there will be fewer and fewer people clogging up the streets at Folsom Street Fair and other celebrations.

Why because those formally in or at those street fairs are now with their children or working to take care of the down payments on homes,dining out,at the movies,plays, or visiting other married friends in the city or across the bay.

Gays have said "We’re Queer We’re Here Get Over It."

Now it looks like we need to join them to say "They’re Queer Are Married Let’s Move On."

Spent to much time on a –this-to-shall-pass-issue.

Now on the same day as all the hoopla in City Hall was going on in South Korea another kind of revolutionary breakthrough occurred in science of stem cell manipulation.

South Korean researchers for the first time cloned a human embryo,then culled (picked our or taken away) from stem cells from it. (As said in the pre Fang sold Examiner Paper.) Marking an important step toward one day growing patient’s own replacement tissue to treat diseases.

Yeah,old story the only problem is stem cell science has advanced and will keep advancing until the day you or I if we have minor accidents taking away a hand,food, or leg can get a genetic replacement without rejection problems.

I know Mr. Christopher Reeves is looking at this and may have contacted American,Korean,and other researchers working in this or science and technical fields.

This is one of those little milestones that doesn’t get seen but cause a ripple effect throughout the field and creates whole new areas of interests and areas of study.

One example may be small that shows what I mean:


Does anyone remember Dr. Rosalind Franklin,in 1951 she advanced the X-ray resolution of DNA structure to a new level of clarity and sophistication.

Franklin made if possible for both James Watson,Francis Crick,able to see a structure looking like twisted strands of string strung together.

It was the discovery of… oh the Double Helix of 1953? By the way since I’ve read the story of the Double Helix by James Watson its only fair to read Rosalind Franklin DNA by Anne Sayre.

Another book about a woman in is Lisa Meitner, the first scientist in the world to discover fission.

But by birth, accident of time and circumstances: The Wrong Person at The Wrong Time. Or so says a random link box in the www.popular-science.net/nobel/dna.html
Which is the site that helped me write this column.
Thank You Popular Science.net/nobel/dna. html.

As you can see women given half a chance do wondrous, miraculous deeds the greatest is still species survival by giving birth, she even discovered fission and dna. Maybe if people-kind survives another woman will indeed lead us from life extension to true physical immortality. But we’ll always need wombs to grow and nourish in unless the cloning process can be done without making psychopathic monsters out of children first.

If anyone say they are absolutely ready for the brave new world to come… well, tell me about it so I can be less afraid.


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by Joe B.

Int. Women’s Day Pt.2

As I left the story from the youngest of infants to old men were dying in forests,under earth,and sea becoming part natures design as they accidentally find anti male preserves for women.

Meanwhile new kinds of males are created who can bare and nurture children a feat that for many women felt completely secure and now the very foundation of womanhood is threatened by genetic manipulated proof that being a woman no longer mean automatic superiority of life and death.

Its all hypothetical women bare children,both right and left sides their brains work in tandem solving problems,they are mentally,emotionally if not physically stronger than most males and ultimately have the power to bring forth or end life once begun in the womb.

I have to stop for a moment when mentioning right/left brain communicating with other is not purely a female trait those all if not most women think this way men can and do to an extent I use myself as an example.

Early Monday,I’m on a crowded bus heading for work when the bus turns a Geary and Polk Street people rush to get of before the bus stops one of rusher is behind telling to move which I cannot because I standing with backpack on back.

"Move.

"He says this tall mixed race well muscled man looking angry muscled.

"Go,Go,Go On already!!"

He pushes by me like some enraged bull.

Once off He’s screaming come out,lets have it out now.

"Go,Go,Go,I'm screaming back at him as people still get out and sneak in the rear doors of the bus.

Then it happened! Words,thoughts are going through my head in crystal clear split second clarity.

Long ago lessons of pressure points on carotid artery,adam’s apple,sides of the ribs,belly,flat- back hand,or kicks,some can kill,stun, incapacitate,or knock out a person.

The sutures on my teeth hurt I feel salty-sweet blood on upper left roof of my mouth,550 dollars!

A dental appointment and housing authority on the same day,my job is not my career path,I want to jump a mudhole it the guy I don’t care how big he is all I see is blinding red rage.

I had to leave a new girlfriend and I’m horny abstaining from sex for lent.

My mind saw all these thing going on at once and looking at the guy still screaming to get out and fight him rationality like a cool wet cloth told me what to say next.

"I gotta go to work" I hollered at the man.

The rear door close and I’m off the bus at few stops away still in the throws of angry,pissed but in control heading for my job.

All men are not blinded by rage some man as women do think,proces through as we’re feeling our testosterone tunneled rage.

Maybe more men do this than women expect but since they are convinced from what they’ve seen,experienced they may be blind to those that do process through anger's red-green-blue sheen differently as women. Or it could be I've been with a few that I'm tuned in and can automatically think through emotional turmoil.

Though it does seem that women too have blind spots.

Another beef I’ve got on post International Women’s Day is an article in today’s The Mix (Tuesday’s March 9th Examiner) on Club life & marriage can mix.

Straight men over 30 are seen as sad and pathetic when going to clubs yet single woman are not.

Yes,women still earn less than men but conversely they are creating more small businesses and corporations.

As for clubbing gay men who are single can be any age and there’s no negative consequence.

Being the backbone dollar boys helps that perception as long as they pay the bucks.

I’ve gone clubbing danced,enjoyed myself but when it came to asking women individually or in groups to dance the old rejection bug hit and instinct told me this could be a regular sure enough ignoring first impressions I do more going to other venues and it happened over and over again now I know why men pick and chose carefully because in groups or alone women for any given reason have to yay or nay power and many of them chose to be asker than the askee.

It could be they sense that one I found a women and we dance,got to know each other better 1 to 1 settling down is my motive and they're still in wild woman,untamed,never settle or settle down frame of mind.

I’ve stopped because of economics and being a social drinker doesn’t help.

One other phenomenon: "The Girls Night Out Game" We all know boys night our with men going out on the town singly or in groups to basically get laid this can be straight or gay,guys will be guys going after either glory holes.

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by Joe B.

Hmmm,go to Get-a-Way ’s?

Sometimes life is good we just don’t realize it.

I thought of Wonder Woman,Her Sister Amazon’s of Paradise Island in the straddling Pacific or Atlantic Ocean’s.

Yeah,Paradise is first human’s (the people’s who originally lived and thrived in pre America before was stolen by means most foul.)

Paradise or Hunting ground would have Amazon women hunting,laming (breaking legs of men before mating then killing them,don’t know if cannibalism was also part of their herstory or if men to ornery to tame are killed while their son’s were spared to be work slaves and or lovers?

Amazon’s wasn’t all myth but today’s equivalent are all around us from protester,COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) Founded by Ms. Margo St. James an ex-prostitute and former candidate for San Francisco's Board of Supervisors.

There other heroine’s and hero’s in the ongoing struggle of women’s rights.

But I digress,my thoughts are on the few who after achieving fame, fortune,marriage, reproduction,and even after love or marriage has failed may have found places by accident or design.

In an early March newsprint like The Globe or other tabloid bought in drugstores or the corner store had a story of a hidden vacation spot BEDROOM BEACH.

The article hinted of a South Sea hide away where women who’ve have no need of male money or companionship visit for purposes of re-energizing, rest, and being away from adoring fan,crowds for a bit of recreation and fun.

Men though not expressly banned are few in number because this is mainly for women.

But if men by accident or if invited to said mystery place he no matter what his station,looks, will be made to feel welcome.

Its because after finding a place where women can be themselves, let hair down,and relax for weeks or months at a time there will be a for want of a better expression a "Horniness" factor that is revved up a few notches and any man who may be their as their female counter part rest and recreation may find their interrupted by amorous women who’s sex drive have returned to them with a vengeance!

I myself would after achieving a modicum of fortune if not fame by my writings (as a new or established novelist) and had enough money to travel for the purpose of rest and re-cooperation.

If by sheerest accident of kismet landed on this hidden beach land on sun, sand,surf,and sauce which I indulge less and less of.

An various kinds of women began interacting with me,there’s only one thing I can do and this would be as Oscar Wild famously said "Give into temptation."

To ensure return visits I’d always have a bungalow maybe or more modern type home there.

And as one of the invited few it would remain my duty to remain silent so those who are forever in extreme need this balm of earthy heaven should have it as their due.

Secrets only remain so if kept to ones self.

If any of you were lucky to have visited said places,Please tell me about it and other places of rest and fun.

because I need to get away from civilization, shed my urbanity and just breath free for a few months before returning a so called normal life again.

Pt.3 of Post Women’s DAY musings continues Friday.

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by Joe B.

Int. Women’s Day Pt.3

But for girls night our singly or in groups.

A woman or women in groups have decided to go out leaving boy friends or hubby’s behind.

Now this is this where men and women really differ in perceptions.

As young women go clubbing as women most go in for free,first drink free.

The woman,women dance provocatively enjoying their affects on males for new men they like they give their numbers (it may not be their’s but it’s a number this is especially for men they don’t like, know,or feel odd or bad vibes from.

At the end of all the dancing,drinking,and sweating most of the women go home with their friends full of numbers from men they might or might not see again.

The game part is men themselves get ego and physically ready to for bud tumbles but its all fun and games for the women who really only wanted to dance and show them off in look,drool, but don’t touch and sometimes get offended if men come on too strong yet knowing that men are their to bed them.

It’s a sad set up of a game many straight men enter willingly for close contact but after days or weeks of frustrated dry humps and blue balls some leave the clubs for a while going to strip clubs where at least you see women nude and semi nude they may still go home blue but without being danced out tired.

Here’s an idea guys. Adopt attitude of having a good time but don’t stay in your favorite place change up, find new places and you dance first before asking and after there or four good looking women answer no then you be a courteous gentleman and slowly make you way out of the club heading to another one planned out.

You spend less money in one,find other women more willing and eventually no matter where you go there will be a few women waiting for the stranger who’s not always at the same dance club/bar which is exactly what women watch for if there are the same men they tend to quickly leave for other places.

Men like having a regular waterhole place while most women do the "been there seen him route" until the man does something different-say has on or many women around him few women find one man along interesting enough to even talk to let alone take to bed,men should take a few pages from their book of rules and change them slightly to their advantage.

Women can give birth, abort, or otherwise kill their or other children.

Women only have power because we as men acquiesce to them.

Women say it all the time "Most of us don’t dress for men we compete with each other,the best lover to a woman is another woman,and the old "We no long need men to procreate,we don’t need father’s.

But as a certain late night radio talks show med/psych doctors says "Young girls abused by their father's neglected,or not knowing their father have devastating effects on young girls that stunt, twist,and hurt their psyche for years to come.


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by Joe B.

Int. Women’s Day Pt. 5

Men are important in the lives of children maybe not in their mother’s now ex wife’s but certainly more than women first thought.

Women like men can be as chauvinistic in their rabid dogmatic mantra or drone against males.

Its more than proves to this hapless male even though men can be blamed for 60 to 80% of problems we’re changing but 40 or 20% of women keep the process going in their rush to be always right.

Why do you think men seek eternal life?

The answer to outlive the whining screech of women with constant blame in their eyes,on their lips,and voices because after 40 or more years of male bashing it sounds more like pure revenge for revenge sake.

Ms. Lorena Bobbit cheered for castrating her husband,John,Wayne, Bobbit,sending chills to all men mistreating women especially their wives but I’ve noticed women tend escalate violence towards men.

Yes,he mistreated her, abused her physically and emotionally but it seems castration was like Lorena saying "Your mine,its mine,you won’t use it on me or anyone else; especially pleasuring anyone else."

Ownership? I guess that’s the ultimate a woman can do to a man take is stem or de-ball him physically.

Wayne was lucky science and technology came to his aide but as for being in porn films I would want to many females seeing my drumstick re attached because some other angry women might try for a more permanent solutions as in the use of a blowtorch.

When men’s feeling gets hurt most of us don’t immediately lash out but go to a gym,talk to friends,or have a drink but women are taught its alright to publicly humiliate with a thrown drink in the face,food poured over head and lap or be told off how really bad in bed he was lie or not most people will take women at their word and the man has to take it, swallow pride,not physically fight back which society says is wrong.

If the man does protests its more word play if silent he’s condemned ether way its no a no win.

Its why men walk away in throttled silence.

Women play underdog perfectly,taken advantage except when they’re in the wrong using tears to escape,men cry and it is a ploy or they’re wimps or gay.

Lastly all the good men are either taken(married), gay,or mutants(that’s from a Mutant X episode).

The truth is good men have been burned along with the bad because women don’t distinguish between them its hard to find guys who really love women and want to marry,settle down, and have children.

When they do it’s the women who flee to enjoy their endless free passes using men as deserts to waste.

All the so called good men tire of find one tired of playing the single game and another man is out of circulation for the duration.(I sure want that to happen to me).

I’ll tell you one thing if you’re a straight guy hardwired to cherish, appreciate women,its almost an anathema to them thinking freedom is single-hood only.

I can tell you its 50% either way. Straight guys haven’t figured out straight girls,women who’ve been abused emotionally,physically or both by boy-men friends, bi women swinging both ways,lesbian doing the same for a thrill,trans sexed men-women,gay men made up so good that they fool men and again lesbian who are strikingly pretty or beautiful playing the game of getting straight men to fall for them only to say "Sorry,I didn’t know you loved me,I’m lesbian sugar,didn’t you know?

As a guy with no gay-dar(unable to spot gays or other sexual orientations).

Living in San Francisco or anyplace where being a regular,ordinary,straight guy is like being a foreigner in alien country.

Yeah,Ladies,women, Girls,Wymin,Wimmin,or Grrrr’s I’m on a roll argue on your B Board sites(You know just what I mean, hot ‘n angry or hot ‘n horny whatever dialog what this crazy jack-a guy is talking about,I dare you all to come to an agreement.
(Joe)


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Muteado is a youth member at the Po' Poets Project.

"This book was created by the people for the people.

by tiny and Dee/PoorNewsNetwork

Light red acryllic carpet fibers rose like steam in the sun strokes that filled the empty lobby of the Trinity Plaza Apartments

It was the summer of 1989, the week after the Bay Area rose up and broke itself in half. My mother and I were barely surviving in Oakland at the time. I had just turned 18 and we were selling art on the street to eat, smarting from a recent eviction and living in a cheap motel at 32.00 a day trying desperately to save money for an apartment. The earthquake took away what little "market" there was in Berkeley for our goofy sold out-no longer art-product and the only way we had a chance to survive at all was if we were able to "set-up" an unlicensed vending booth in the City. So every day delicately wedged between the shattered ruins of consumerism dee and tiny stood forelornly, like charlie brown in the rain, hoping someone would buy even one of our silly t-shirts, so we could eat lunch and put away a couple of bucks toward our homefulness .

One day as I emerged from the civic center bart station i needed to use a bathroom so i snuck into the vast red carpeted lobby of Trinity plaza apartments, with its huge plate glass windows untouched by any earthquake damage - as i did i noticed the sign - Apartments - fully furnished - reasonable prices - available daily, weekly, monthly. I ran back to my mom to tell her the good news, we would move in - this would be cheaper cause we could avoid bart and then we could even work on the union square streets more.

"this place wasn't even damaged by the earthquake", Elizabeth Glover, retired schoolteacher and 15 year resident of the Trinity Plaza Apartments told us in her beautiful teacherly diction. It was almost fifteen years later, and as PoorNewsNEtwork reporters and activist "sup-porters" my mother and I were sitting with the tenants of the Trinity in a tenants meeting discussing the terms of an offer they had just recived from their landlord Angelo SanGiancomo.

On April 7th of 2003 400 residents of the Trinity Plaza Apartments received a letter from Sangiacomo stating that he was seeking a demolition permit and would be evicting all of the tenants so he could demolish their units and build five new condo towers at that site.

From that point on the tenants who were primarily working class elders, youth, immigrants, families and disabled folks began to organize to fight this landlord who was notorious for his horrendous treatment of tenants in other buildings . As well, because there are several trinity plaza tenants who are elders of color –this eviction effort is reminiscent of the I-hotel demolitions that displaced over 5000 asian/pacific islanders from their homes in the 70's

"Once they tell you to leave it puts you under an enormous amount of stress", Ms Glover, a very dignified African-American elder was relating the situation that the tenants have been facing since last year.
The Trinity is very convenient for disabled people like myself, there is a store downstairs, a restaurant and elevators that work"

Dee asked Ms Glover what the community at the Trinity was like. "it is a wonderful community of folks ranging in age from babies to seniors with disabilities and a truly multi-cultural group of people" Her statements were proven even in the little meeting - which quickly filled up with African-AMericans, asian and filipinos, latino, white and Native Americans.

"I don't want to move, this is my home", Sally Ramone, 11 year trinity resident, Native American elder, war veteran and San Francisco City employee spoke to us about the difficulty of living in a buidling that would be undergoing massive construction. As of this meeting the landlord had made an offer to the tenants which the tenant advocates who were present at the meeting characterized as "somewhat of a victory" against this very powerful well-connected landlord. Sangiancomo had offered to only let the tenants live in the building while the construction was in progress and then give them apartments in the new building. Although this sounded good on paper there was no clear discussion of comparability -ie the specifics about what kind of units the tenants would be getting in the new building, as well, the new units would not be subject to rent control because they would be so new. They recieved this offer, the advocates said, because of their effective resistance

Throughout the struggle of the last year, the tenants and their advocates lobbyied the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to change the loophole in the law that allow landlords like San Giancomo permits to demolish. From that effort an anti-demolition ordinance was born. This legislation would protect sound housing in buildings with 20 or more units from demolition and preserve existing rent controlled housing for all San Franciscans, including those at the Trinity Plaza. This legislation would have passed except that our new landlord-friendly mayor Gavin Newsom vetoed it, perhaps because Newsom recieved over 15,000 in campaign contributions from Sangiancomo's family. District 8 supervisor Bevan Dufty has waffled on the issue and is now the deciding vote needed to override the veto.

"San Giancomo attempted the same eviction in the 80's and only because of the strong organizing by tenants it was halted, In a follow-up call to Sam Dodge, from the SRO Collaborative, one of many tenant advocacy groups involved in this effort , including SF tenants union, Housing Rights Committee and many more. He continued, "That's why we need to get this legislation on the books" If people want to help, they should contact Bevan Dufty's office and ask him to support the Anti-Demolition ordinance"

One month after the earthquake, my mother and I moved in to apartment 215 at the Trinity Plaza Apartments- replete with a faded gold couch, chipping end tables, a few pieces of silverware, dishes, linens and the lobby with its glitterring Las vegas chandliers, big plate glass windows and
bright red carpets perpetually floating in the morning sun

Contact Bevan Dufty to urge him to support the anti-demolition ordinance at 415 554-6968. For more journalism on issues of poverty and racism by people who experience it first-hand go on-line to www.poormagazine.org

by Joe B.

Int. Women’s Day Pt.4

But for girls night our singly or in groups.

A woman or women in groups have decided to go out leaving boy friends or hubby’s behind.

Now this is this where men and women really differ in perceptions.

As young women go clubbing as women most go in for free,first drink free.

The woman, women dance provocatively enjoying their affects on males for new men they like they give their numbers (it may not be theirs but it’s a number this is especially for men they don’t like, know,or feel odd or bad vibes from.

At the end of all the dancing,drinking,and sweating most of the women go home with their friends full of numbers from men they might or might not see again.

The game part is men themselves get ego and physically ready to for bud tumbles but its all fun and games for the women who really only wanted to dance and show them off in look,drool, but don’t touch and sometimes get offended if men come on too strong yet knowing that men are their to bed them.

It’s a sad set up of a game many straight men enter willingly for close contact but after days or weeks of frustrated dry humps and blue balls some leave the clubs for a while going to strip clubs where at least you see women nude and semi nude they may still go home blue but without being danced out tired.

Here’s an idea guys. Adopt attitude of having a good time but don’t stay in your favorite place change up,find new places and you dance first before asking and after there or four good looking women answer no then you be a courteous gentleman and slowly make you way out of the club heading to another one planned out.

You spend less money in one, find other women more willing and eventually no matter where you go there will be a few women waiting for the stranger who’s not always at the same dance club/bar which is exactly what women watch for if there are the same men they tend to quickly leave for other places.

Men like having a regular waterhole place while most women do the "been there seen him route" until the man does something different-say has on or many women around him few women find one man along interesting enough to even talk to let alone take to bed,men should take a few pages from their book of rules and change them slightly to their advantage.

Women can give birth, abort,or otherwise kill their or other children.

Women only have power because we as men acquiesce to them.

Women say it all the time "Most of us don’t dress for men we compete with each other,the best lover to a woman is another woman,and the old "We no long need men to procreate,we don’t need father’s.

But as a certain late night radio talks show doctor’s say young girls either abused,neglected, or even not knowing their father’s have devastating effects on young girls that stunt,twist,and hurt their psyche for years to come.

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by Job B.

Indifference/Roads End

Its been a long, strange, frustrating trip at PM.

As for women I’m finding out that whatever rules they make up they will also change as it begins not working.

Like the 3 day phone call rule after dance bar clubbing for men to call on the same night or next day shows the woman desperation on his part.

But the rule stops working when many ladies are called not either the ladies compare notes and freeze the guy out or a few will break to rule to call back so it seems all a guy needs to call so many women after a night or a day after that at least a few will answer and ignore the rules because rules are made to adjusted, bent, fixed,or broken the repaired.

The slavering,visibly horny guy is anathema to most straight women its not that don’t like men it’s the way men mentally drool over them as animals slobber over food they begin to show marked indifference you know the "showing or feigning of it beats the emotion of hate because that still shows feeling.

You the old saying fake something long enough an it becomes true.

The rage women have about men is all out in the open and all men guilty or innocent are subject to it.

I can play the indifferent to actually see, talk to women in short clipped answers looking directly into their eyes an not at their varying shapes as they see generic men.

At first its difficult to be as cold blooded, emotionally dead as women are want to be when freezing out males my knack is remembering what I was like before the girls and women flooded my hormones and have continued of to wash over me ever since.

Now no matter the size, shape, plain,pretty,ugly, or drop dead gorgeous there’s less physical and mental excitement as I see or talk to women are comfortable with me as a eunuch in a harem.

It feels good not be look down on and talked to so I guess what women want is every right afforded men without all the backlash.

I may have to leave Poor Magazine for City College or go directly to a state run Therapeutic Massage as a hedge in a nebulous writing or singing career stalls.

Oh yes,I’ll learn voice while studying piano on my with DVD’s or video tapes.

Its been mostly fun but after a time its time to go and have someone else have the benefits of what PM has to offer.
If my PC at home begins working I may open up a website,web cam,
and really try dating on line like I could never do at work.

I’d like to travel to the South of New Zealand, Australia,all over Europe, see Mecca and Africa, Philippines,learn to fly/jump from a plain, paraglide/surf and if I make enough money to buy a house for my mother while sending my sister-in-law and brother some money.

Lastly visit Legal Brothel for extensive expensive oralogy and deep penetration lessons.

"O-S" I’ve learned a little but to really be expert at it must learn from either Lesbian who enjoy men on the side or exclusive Lesbian who are hetro curious. This would be for my upcoming 50th birthday.

Or I can have more modest birthday bash at a Massage business on Bush Street now I don’t know whether that will be before or after eating with a dear friend she would not like herself being before or after either event so I’ll have a lovely dinner with her and in a day or so visit the business on Bush.

I’ve never had a message before and since I may have a career in it so I might as well experience what I’ll be doing and once does not tell the tale there should be regular visits.

As for legal brothels in Nevada I may have to live there for a few months or a year to really get all the benefits and hard won knowledge these women have earned so the least I can do is be a regular student of the erotic arts.

I hope to find a job either on City College Campus or somewhere with less demanding work. I don’t know what happens after poor Magazine Inc.

However its past time for me to live and maybe some newspaper or radio will hire me to give advice but at this point everything is in flux but I know this has to done I just want to transition to a newer freer life change is always difficult but if it wasn’t so we would learn nothing from it and its time for me get up, dust myself to learn and work.

This is not my last column but its telescoping down to where there will be a last column and I hope my replacement has a better fit than I and will enjoy their work her much better.

Now its time go to being work on my exiting POOR Magazine.

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by Leroy Moore/Illin and Chillin

Mainstream media paints the picture

of my brothers and sisters in Haiti

They haven’t seen what lays inside
of Enock Placide’s frame

capturing lush landscapes of his country

born in Gonaives and at age four contracted polio.

Going back home to open an art studio

The ink from reporters’ pens don’t tell the story of Soni

or the book on his life, “Soni Mended’s Wings”

A disabled Brother who was on the brink of homelessness

spent his first five yeas in a crib

Now he dances all over the world to raise funds

for orphanages, Wings of Hope and St. Joseph’s Home

Not men in office but boys from the streets helped create

Looking after their brothers with no government strings

But What I do see and read

Poverty, broken communities & high rate of illiteracy

Gives a green light for a coup de etat

Can’t have a Black independent country so close to its Masta, the US

Who enslaved its people to drag them to the home of contradiction

Haitians, Africans, Jamaicans The Black Diaspora

Making the connection

to decades of oppression from Uncle Sam

From slave boats to US Airforce planes

Repeating history

from Florida to Haiti

White men turning back the clock

with budget cuts at home while invading Black land

But people like Michael Geilenfeld & Rose Anne Auguste

Dig their heals deep into Haiti’s soil

to plant seeds of change

Healing Hands for Haiti strengthen the voice of the disabled

and the melody of Boukman Eksperyans,

calls out demonstrators to the streets

creating their own media, art, justice and society

Independence for Black people from DC to Haiti!
…………….Poem for Haiti
By Leroy F. Moore Jr.

My African American Brothers we must learn from
our brothers of St. Josephs Home in Haiti!! After
the coup de etat of Haitis president, Aristide, I got
on the internet and asked my activists friends for
information about Haitians with disabilities.
Receiving very little, until I found the website of
Peter Eyvindson, a Canadian writer which led me to the
powerful and heartfelt story of St. Josephs Home in
Port au Prince, Haiti, for street boys and the life of
Soni Derazin, a Haitian disabled young man now.
Eyvindson was only visiting Port au Prince but his
heart couldnt let go of Michael Geilenfelds work
and the boys of St. Joseph who created Wings of Hope,
a home for disabled youth. Like many writers Peters
pen is connected to his heart and booth took over to
write the book, Sonis Mended Wings

As tears washed my face, anger boiled inside me
like a pot on a high flame. I was torn between the
mainstream media blasting the people of Haiti to the
uplifting and determination detailing the work and
love of Michael Geilrnfeld, who is the founder of
St Josephs Home and his boys who single handily
created Wings of Hope. This was a personal research
of disabled Haitians for me because after doing the
research of St. Josephs Home, Wing of Hope, the life
of Soni Derazin, I had the rare opportunity to talk
to Peter Eyvindon who is the author of Sonis Mended
Wings and Soni. Mr. Eyvindon and Soni are on a book
tour of the US to rise funds to build and furnish of a
physiotherapy unit at Wing of Hope, a home for the
physically and mentally disabled. At their readings,
Soni dances along with the drumming while Peter reads
from the book. This is amazing if you know Sonis
background. According to Peters book, Soni spent his
first five years in a crib and had not had the
opportunity to learn how to walk or talk. Now,
thanks to the boys of St. Joseph, Soni is walking.
They were in North Carolina making their way home
to Canada when I had the chance to speak to them over
the phone. They are pleased that Poor Magazine, the
San Francisco Bayview Newspaper and Pushing Limits
show on KPFA Free Speech Radio are interested in their
story. Soni told me he is learning to read and also
thank me for writing this article. On March 9th I
received the book, Sonis Mended Wings and will be
writing a book review.

According to Peter it is hard on the boys of St.
Joseph and Wings of Hope right now with the recent
events in Haiti because the orphanage survive solely
on donation and tours of people visiting. After the
recent events in Haiti, the boys have to stay inside
and there has not been any visitors, thus cutting back
on their monetary resources for the every day needs
of the boys plus the day-to-day operations of the
home. i.e. electricity, heat and food etc.. Its also
affecting when and how Soni will fly back home to
Haiti. Stay tune for the words from Soni and Peter
about their experiences on tour and the situation in
Haiti for disabled youth.