Durham College - Yearbook (Oshawa, Ontario Canada)

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ENGJUyStiJ S re I a huTO%le being isteaing to a jelly bean. Eed in colour, not in view, Has a very low I.Q. Rocking forward, vica-versa, Listening to us sit and cursa. Off on a tangent, all his own. We all wish he ' d go home. Have you heard a jelly bean Talk about a mental scene? Sun goes up; sun goes down. God, how sickening is this clown. Sun goes down, makes a night. Cut a turkey, such a sight. Here we sit, in a rut. Could it be that he ' s a nut? Two hundred clams, that we pay Just to sit all the day. Listening to a jelly bean Tell about the immortal s ?Nony Miiss MEDITATION Floating in the abyss of time, Youth expounded! A cylinder of multi-colours. Unequaled shade in a cone of Celestial Darkness. Alone; alone on the outer edges of the milky way The shades And shadows of my life Are as the stars in the heavens. Here! Here am I floating; Floating as though; As though on a piece of treated wood In the midst of a boundless ocean Of nothingness. A dark jagged line on a black page. Suddenly. ..a brilliance; a light That leaves shadows for all eternity In my endless thoughts. And so on I write.... A soliloquy of emptiness. - Rodney A. Rinne 17

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What a tremendous game we say As we watch high sticking and slashing with glee. Oh, :good, a fightl --Will Baun kill Hay? Fights, Blood, Penalties! This is the game for me. Kill the umpire! Murder the ref! Chuckle he slipped on the ice and broke his neck, So we caused those traffic deaths — I don ' t care, I ' m still alive, so what the heck? Have you heard about the Viet Cong? They kill because they think they are right. Our men so clean, so brave, so strong. What barbarians that they must fight! We are in favour of disarmament. We want to ban the Bomb. What better way to get rid of it Than to drop it on the Cong? Some say Johnson is a nUt For carrying the war in Viet Nam so far. Johnson is sane I ' m sure -- but I wonder if the people who voted for him are? They send us to school to learn to think And idealistic thoughts in our brains to form. So our open minds and truths we can link To prepare us to go into the world and conform. Young Canadians into politics will thrust To public life they will devote their time And give people an image to trust, So Bankruptcy can be their sideline. The whites in the Southern States With whom I will not trouble to converse Vote for segregation and hate. Compared to the Cong, that ' s worse! We put Indians on reservations To keep them in their place. Yell Equality in the United Nations. That ' s the way of the human race. - David Clayton

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A PUPIL ' S PRAYER Now I lay me down to sleep. My Homework it will have to keep. If I die before I wake, I have but three requests to make. Lay my Business book in my hand. Tell Mr. Laporte I don ' t understand. Lay my Math book at my feet. Tell Mr. Benn it ' s got me beat. Lay my English book at my side. Tell Mr. Evens I ' m glad I died. - A. Nony Muss IMMANENCE I sketch from nature and the draught is. true. Whate ' er the picture, whether grave or gay, Painful experience in a distant land Made it my own. Not only in the cataract and the thunder Or in the depths of man ' s uncharted soul. But in the dew-star dwells alike the wonder. And in the whirling dust-mote the Control. Something in my inmost thinking Tells me I am one with you. For a subtle bond is linking Nature ' s offspring through and through. The Praying Mantis mounts the stair. Her tiny arms upheld in prayer; In chasuble and stole She stands to read my soul. - David Clayton INFLATION We were born to an age of ridiculous ease. We were born too early to be old today. We were born too damn late to rich. But we won ' t be born again. 18