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Now more than ever -
browsing "zeens"my perspective! (my how the cutting-edge is coopted)
for web class thursdayplaces like buzznett
I never get to the content anyplace that is
"your on-line cultural voice"but they didn't ask me first whose culture? whose voice?
mine? I've got mine already, thanks.
and on the front page today, it reads
web content corp©'s
top 53rd percentile
badass mutherfuckin'
wicked web site
like
yer mama! used to make
I'll arbitrate my own cool
cool today was like patience reteaching Balky
to edit his web pages
he couldn't understand whythe computer wouldn't forgive his mistakes
I couldn't understand whyhe didn't remember what I told him again five minutes ago
of us, the machine was the most forgiving.my compassion for my old teachers
grew by the minute
while I realized the greatest trial
of tutorial
yeilds most potent results.
tonight,
Balky harnassed digital means
Macintosh AppleTalk Local Area NetWork Broadcast 2.1
in a direct appeal for meaning
Aaron found me
asked me to ministerI joined Balky in his dorm
room, bare walls floor littered with cigarettes, matches, paper no sheets on the bed we sat and chatted a bit
I know he wants to be alive
you can read it on his web page.he fears the great lonliness
attracted to soul beauty
he comes on too strong
comes up with nothing.you sent out a broadcast
and soon attended by friends
someday you might call and no one will come
learn to send an inner broadcast you're right -
no one will ever go out with you
or be close to youbecause you are disabled. "what?"
why aren't you in a school
for disabled kids? "cuz I'm not disabled!"
right,
as long as you believe that,
it's like my mom said about discrimination
folks should take you on your terms,screw 'em if they can't do that
what you need is patience
like I was trying to teach this guy about the web today...
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