Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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To Those who Know . To those whO can see, I say loOk: To those who can hear, I say listen. • to those who have the god I sayinothing , • , .,..- .• time, and longed for you to possess my body . . rn€, ' mb strihg and wise. TO ' • e froM-the eternal sun world of ' s adav:and death . .- On your infinite length ' id wings I could soar see the gray world as it is and leave touching commander ' s mud. • But this is all of-anci tales given to the young of flesh. The wings of reality never pick you up -- but - push you down — farther in the darkness of earth ' s cold mud.: , .. .. . ., . It makes one look with eyes opened. pried like a halved nut unable to move to its originality Ifhand feeds you with a large wooden spoon. forcing you to swallow the untastefulfacts of life after which your mouth isMaided by time ' s unseeing hands. which folds the fat of your mouth to form a subhuman smile of what you like. y ability of both. • In life we 4 141 strive to obt t lain ... -.:... e ' k lo e ' On rOh liew hate IT • a To exist without love is not to live

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point— show The way No, Pointing isn ' t proper To lose hope and faith Is to lose all contact with life. lib jib rising slowly from the ground (like a missle from its silo) the green cylinder makes its acquaintance with its new world then starts its assent skyward and, suddenly, burst! into a yellow daffodil. David W. Smith the air is filled with Hate maybe too often we are War only just ourselves Distrust perhaps we shouldn ' t Dishonesty stop there Breathe! but continue on Who are we David W. Smith to question jib 17

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Friends 0 loSe a friend by death is a cold hard by predetermined foresight. We display our tional feelings by outward crying, confessing. a shocked. neglected physical appearance. he advance of time our emotions are soothed. x-shock has subsided while respect grows. y when one loses a friend that still li n es one feel the full force of rejection. o t vosittiastmtotessr,,,s death ' s greedy paws is hard enough to tkltise afriend as a result of snobbery. gossip. -- ittcting0antons ' ..or dislike is beyond full recovery.. Tfra.se-atifedOn such earth-bound bases is so unnatural - That oral (eased can be the judges. itcld is a mirror to one ' spast. ak one Sdhcirt contings. Like 0 bloOthStained is a e bla s. trwriate standards, ' rr, . ' •i. ..-. ` ,.. esuchlr lt 1 ±; :. tie . ....:Th i it$91f1h°10 a !.., dies have death its yetravelledk n elf for y ar that isten. I have ven I : •t and day. for a place for• y tn. I hay? welk4d . an unknow ading-to a cidAded end. .. ? ' , tWIMI I have ventured, front12 e sex, to acid and pills Each ' Jt :I have searched and have failed. , .... you At behind ' - I havR p to Hell and back again too many times. $0 shell is tired of this useless 162 • •, , at least there used to be windmills Go th re was a way homeward. --.. te there was a way home. . , , Once there was a human. it was a way to be. r - P , . , N. . i ' ' ' ' ' ,, MOS (when Don Quixote rode the plains)% •-• Smith ) ' • Irv` 19