Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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Radical

I’m not sure.  It’s not
enough to want meaning.
In fact, that would be
getting the cart before the

horse.  Perhaps we should
ask Judge Wacko.  You may
begin with What meaning
do I want to be?
  If Congress

doesn’t end the fed shutdown
by Oct. 23, Nov. CalFRESH
benefits may be delayed.
Does this sound easy?

I doubt if it is.  Who’s hungry?
When I was but an adolescent I
discovered that anyone who’d
become the least bit acquainted

with me would quickly know
my deepest secrets almost
instantaneously.  Thought the
adolescent, Who wants to be

read like a book?
  Not me.
By which I mean on whom
I happened to be crushing
at the moment.  I used to

have a lot of friends who
called themselves activists.
They lived in San Francisco.
I laughed and said what?

clean out