THE DAILY TRAVESTY | Good-bye
The Daily Travesty
 
30 May 2000            email
Vol. 1, Issue 93        on the web
 
 
".... I grok people.  I am people... so now I can say it in people talk.  I've found out why people laugh.  They laugh because it hurts... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.... death is so sad that we must laugh at it.  All those religions -- they contradict each other on every other point but each one is filled with ways to help people be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying."
 
--Valentine Micheal Smith (the Man from Mars)
  in Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein


 
RE: REALLY OLD SHIT, MAN
 
No surprise here.  Another 'discovery' is apparently detailed in a Popular Mechanics article... They now think that humans were in the Americas as much as 40,000 years ago and traced to the anciet Jomon (Japanese), and the south China coast.  I'd recommend you buy the mag and read it for yourselves.  There is a similar article in Discovery.
 
Carol Burkhart


 
Reader submission
 
let me explain the reason for this piece.  you see i just broke up with my bf... one i care for alot... unfortunately things just don't work out for us to be together: funny what feelings, a few words, and time do to the relationship two people have.  we were always more like best friends then boyfriend/girlfriend... its only when that changed did problems develop.
 
you said its over.
 
that you don't love me
the way i love you.
and that it's not fair to make me think
that things are better than they really are.
 
I could believe the words;
    i knew you meant them,
    i knew you were right,
        for both of us.
 
i suffered, knowing the tears you cried,
    were for the pain i was in,
hearing the tears in your voice
broke my heart more then the good-bye.
 
but to my greatest surprise,
    i still hurt,
    still ache for you,
but not for our past,
    not for what we had.
 
i want none of that.
    i was as trapped as you
    as afraid of what we had.
 
i want to be free.
 
I am young,
    i want to taste the world,
    i want to feel the wind of change
to let it blow through my long red hair
letting the fire within me grow
    consuming my life and dreams
 
I need a companion
to walk with me,
    not to hold me back.
to tell me the harsh truth in my times of pain,
   who can tell me i am wrong,
    who has no fear of hurting me
     if a moment of pain is what i need.
to tell my dreams to
    who will tell me their dreams
     trusting me to give them all i have
      knowing all they have to do is ask.
 
you are free now.
do you seek a companion too...
 
-- Autumn Firedancer autumn_1981@yahoo.com
 

"Goodbye," a phrase with (I believe) Anglo-Saxon origins, only means "Goodness be with you."