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9.11
Inside the Whale
By Kanan Makiya

Asian Fantasies
Paul Wolfowitz's Makeover in the Times
By Tim Shorrock

Blue Skies
The American Left Fades Away
By Charles O’Brien

Rivers of Babylon
By Kurt Vonnegut

A Palestinian Gandhi?
By George Lakey

The Left, The Right and The War
By Charles O’Brien

Nothing New Under the Sun
By Greil Marcus

Al Is Conscience and Tendre Hearte
By Fredric Smoler

School's Out Forever
By Lawrence Goodwyn

Crisis of Meaning
By Peter Lamborn Wilson

Citizen Jay-Z
By Armond White

The War
By Charles O'Brien

nation
Horowitz' List
Ten "Reasons", Fifteen and a Half Minutes
By C. O'Brien

The Democratic Revolution
By Lawrence Goodwyn

world
Kosovo and the "Clean Left"
By Charles Keil

Thoughts on Massacre and Mr. Kerrey
By Fredric Smoler

new york city
Bohemian Eclipse
By Stanley Aronowitz

Harlem: The New Frontier?
A Brief History of Gentrification Uptow
By Julian Brash & Neil Smith

music
Safe American Home
By Benj DeMott

The Saddest Song Ever Sung
By Al Aronowitz

Sam Cooke
Lost and Looking
By Stephan Talty

culturewatch
Genius - Not!
Eminem Melts in Your Hands
By Armond White

A Strange and Bitter Spectacle
By Eric Lott

In My Lonely Room
By Ellen Willis

A Child at the Oscars
By Armond White

Is Dan Mad?
The Mind of an Anchorman
By George W.S. Trow

To Observe and Project
Hollywood's Love Affair with Cops
By Armond White

poetry&fiction
A Day in the Death
H.D. Ludd

Peace
Timothy Mayer

Mandela's Eyes
By Amiri Baraka

A Tale of Two Cities
By Timothy Mayer

Ghazal of Twat
By Alison Stone

for the dean who shut down SUNY/Buffalo's degrees for prisoners
By Charles Keil

grindstone
Wild Rides
By Marian Swerdlow

You Are You
By Philip Levine

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© 2001, 2002 First of the Month

Ghazal of Twat

Lover, tell me what you see down there.
I tried a mirror, but it's hairy down there.

Jewel of many names - lotus garden,
nappy dugout, yoni, down there.

Lilith got bored with missionary.
Kneel and taste the honey down there.

Adam refused. I need a woman under me.
Besides, you bleed and pee down there.

Shiny lips, real hair, but Eve is missing
something. Just a plastic V down there.

Men dream of women filled with teeth
and razor blades - an arsenal of weaponry down there.

On today's show: Pre-teen sluts confess to Mom,
That ain't no cherry down there.

Tomorrow frustrated women teach their husbands
how to solve the mystery down there.

If a man cooks dinner, he'll expect
to dive into the sea down there.

Magazines push perfume, yogurt.
Take pains not to smell fishy down there.

Be creative -- shave a stripe or heart.
Just don't go crazy down there.

Kick him to the curb if he forgets
your birthday or is lazy down there.

Scientists debate fidelity. Perhaps men aren't creeps;
they're drawn by DNA to seek variety down there.

Forget my MENSA mind and wit, my great legs.
You'll find the best of me down there.

I will know my true love by his eyes and when he says,
You're gorgeous, Stone. I want to spend eternity down there.

—Alison Stone

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