Begley, Mark

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FOR GERALD AND DANit is very hard for someone who doesn’t like to bemisunderstood to write short poems take my word for it.—  Mark Begley Fresno CAMARK MY WORDSwhen the young people in the bar are deriding orange county —  its republicans, its bigots, its wealth —i warn them, "after you have a couple of kids, you may find yourself wishing you could afford to move to orange county."MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCESa woman who overhears me say that my daughter's first child was delivered by a midwife says,"i would imagine that you must have been concerned by that.""you would imagine otherwise," i say,' "if you knew my opinion of the medical profession."THE FRYING PAN AND THE FIREa bright young female friend of mine writes me, concerning gynecologists,"what sort of man would want to look up a woman's skirts all day every day?"i see what she means.87on the other hand,what sort of woman doctor would?DON’T BLAME MEa newsletter just arrivedfrom women's studiesand, honest-to-god,the lead article is entitled"busy beavers."AMERICA FIRSTthis morning a toyota pulled aside mewith a person appearing to beof Japanese extraction in the driver's seat.as the day went on, i noticedhondas, nissans, mazdas, mitsubishis,and isuzus, as well as the toyotas,piloted by persons appearing to beof Japanese extraction.why aren't these people drivingamerican cars? I wondered.they are americans now —  why are theysupporting the economy of their ancestors?after all, i don't drive an irish car.i drive a korean car.NO WONDER THE ARABS WEAR ROBEStoad considered it a cruel inconvenience of our military leaders asking our servicemen to function for weeks in a "no-fly zone."HE DIDN'T FEEL A DAY OVER EIGHTY-NINEthe plague cut short the careers of many major talents of the sixteenth century, giorgione, for instance, dead in his thirties, and titian, snuffed at ninety.88

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