|
||||||||||||
|
12 Days of What?! (fwd)
12 Days of What?! (fwd)
From: Edward Jacobowitz <ejacobow at reed.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 21:18:43 -0800 (PST)
>
> On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter
> festival, my potential-acquaintance-abuse-survivor gave to
> me...
>
> TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual
> drumming,
>
> ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra
> made up of members in good standing of the Musicians Equity
> Union as called for in their union contract even though they
> will not be asked to play a note),
>
> TEN melanin-deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the
> patriarchal ruling class system leaping,
>
> NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression,
>
> EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing
> milk-products from enslaved Bovine-Americans,
>
> SEVEN endangered swans swimming on federally protected
> wetlands,
>
> SIX enslaved fowl-Americans producing stolen nonhuman
> animal products,
>
> FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced
> domestic incarceration,
>
> (NOTE: after a member of the Animal Liberation Front
> threatened to throw red paint at my computer, the
> colling birds, French hens and partridge have been
> reintroduced to their native habitat. To avoid further
> animal-American enslavement, the remaining gift package
> has been revised.)
>
> FOUR hours of recorded whale songs,
>
> THREE deconstructionist poets,
>
> TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed
> tree carcasses,
>
> And a Spotted Owl activist chained to an old-growth
> pear tree.
>
> A merry Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival to
> you all!
Received on 12/21/95
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 21:18:43 -0800 (PST)
To the list: This is not exactly f&sf filk, but it is certainly a bizarre take on an old classic. I assume the author to be the person at the bottom of the list of "From:" (the person at the top of the list is just the one who passed it to me.)
From: Pyrophage From: KCoutinho at aol.com From: J.D. White (jdwhite95 at aol.com)
>
> On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter
> festival, my potential-acquaintance-abuse-survivor gave to
> me...
>
> TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual
> drumming,
>
> ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra
> made up of members in good standing of the Musicians Equity
> Union as called for in their union contract even though they
> will not be asked to play a note),
>
> TEN melanin-deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the
> patriarchal ruling class system leaping,
>
> NINE persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression,
>
> EIGHT economically disadvantaged female persons stealing
> milk-products from enslaved Bovine-Americans,
>
> SEVEN endangered swans swimming on federally protected
> wetlands,
>
> SIX enslaved fowl-Americans producing stolen nonhuman
> animal products,
>
> FIVE golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced
> domestic incarceration,
>
> (NOTE: after a member of the Animal Liberation Front
> threatened to throw red paint at my computer, the
> colling birds, French hens and partridge have been
> reintroduced to their native habitat. To avoid further
> animal-American enslavement, the remaining gift package
> has been revised.)
>
> FOUR hours of recorded whale songs,
>
> THREE deconstructionist poets,
>
> TWO Sierra Club calendars printed on recycled processed
> tree carcasses,
>
> And a Spotted Owl activist chained to an old-growth
> pear tree.
>
> A merry Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival to
> you all!
Received on 12/21/95
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0.