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Ouzoonian</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> TABLE OF CONTENTS</div> <bR> <div> Andromeda      </div> <div> Little Birds in a Plane Cross the Atlantic     </div> <div> Gin and Clonic     </div> <div> Still Love     </div> <div> Eve's Bad Day     </div> <div> About the Residents     </div> <div> Taking Your Advice     </div> <div> Of the Mississippi     </div> <div> unspent love     </div> <div> A Manual for Mass Instruction:  </div> <div>           Concerning the Engine     </div> <div> Love's Myth      </div> <div> Crossroads Blues     </div> <div> The Farmer's Daughter     </div> <div> Hearing the Call      2:00 pm     </div> <div> Hitchhikers guide to dining out     </div> <div> Thrust, Leave     </div> <div> Say goodbye                              </div> <div> Reconnect     </div> <div> <IMG SRC="1539cd90.jpg" border=0 width="156" height="217" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                      <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >The Way How                         </FONT></div> <div> Write Of Way: A Manual </div> <div>            For Mass Instruction                      </div> <div> Musician's Food                         </div> <div> Delicates                              </div> <div> Send Off     </div> <div> Patchwork Chamber     </div> <div> Similes Like Love     </div> <div> When My Sister Talked With God     </div> <div> Explaining the Claddagh Ring </div> <div> An Open Letter to Amy Ouzoonian         </div> <div> Five Roses     </div> <div> Eastern Meditations Conflict with my </div> <div>      Emotional Mechanics     </div> <div> Preordained Suicide Note     </div> <div> A Velvet Strap-on Dildo     </div> <div> Personal     </div> <div> She Won't Say She's Unhappy     </div> <div> Truth     </div> <div> Political     </div> <div> Armageddon it was Not     </div> <div> To Mother, Your Daughter Understands     </div> <div> Scopes of the Blackening Warwick     </div> <div> On the Side of the Highway     </div> <div> Mother Heritage of Anti-Och     </div> <div> Recreating Barbie                         </div> <div> Four Arms                              </div> <div> Cobbler Americana                         </div> <div> The Addition                              </div> <div> A Few of the Places I've Masturbated               </div> <div> Messages                              </div> <div> You Ask Me How I Know That</div> <div>      Vietnam Changed My Father     </div> <div> Puppet                              </div> <div> Starving Artist                         </div> <div> Over Easy     </div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>A Manual for Mass Instruction:  </B></div> <div> <B>Concerning the Engine</B></div> <bR> <div> The engine would stop</div> <div> if all the parts didn't work</div> <div> so, some stepped outside</div> <div> and tasted Virgil's </div> <div> comprehensive nectar until</div> <div> the sun threw her arms around </div> <div> the concept of      many-</div> <bR> <div> Many declared our country God-less and</div> <div> emptied their lungs of air </div> <div> in a field </div> <div> that was the pul-</div> <div> monary vein to violence.</div> <div> Their bulbous eyes absorbed </div> <div> venus' prosthetic breasts:</div> <div> naked and vulnerable </div> <div> as their shuddering independence.</div> <bR> <div> They crawled inside, blind-folded with</div> <div> Blood, hope and stars </div> <div> dreaming in blue. </div> <bR> <div> Few could not stop feeding on</div> <div> the moon.</div> <div> Fed to water, </div> <div> They smacked a horizon </div> <div> called forgiveness.</div> <bR> <div> The motor heart would stop if </div> <div> children spoke back </div> <div> to the chattering boxes</div> <div> --dressed in glorified fixtures of light-</div> <div> Spoke and knew</div> <div> that it was themselves who </div> <div> They hated, envied, loved          it was </div> <div> themselves who</div> <div> paralyzed their fate, </div> <div> that God existed as much</div> <div> as their will.</div> <bR> <div> The valves would rust and rot</div> <div> The engine would drop if</div> <div> Everyday a fist unraveled and </div> <div> Cried out in its first voice </div> <div> here, take this--</div> <div> This is all I have. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> Amy 'uzi' Ouzoonian recently received her BA in writing for the theater and journalism from SUNY New Paltz university.  She has edited an anthology of poetry, <I>Skyscrapers, Taxis and Tampons</I> and has been the editor of 4 issues of <I>A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine</I>.  She lives in New Paltz, New York where she hosts a poetry reading at the Mudd Puddle Cafe and is a board member of Arts for Peace and the performance director of the Space: a cultural co-op art organization and a member of the activist group Synthesis.</div> <bR> <div> To Contact Amy -<A HREF="mailto:uzismurf2000@yahoo.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:uzismurf2000@yahoo.com"><U> uzismurf2000@yahoo.com</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Amy's website - 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