University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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I have seen and heard parent's letters stacked high, with replys, comments, insinuations, as they grope and feel to try to talk to the alarming creature they nurtured but gave different means of communication to. I have seen and head scared teachers, professors, poets fighting their impossible. invisible mass-media foes, feeling youth take-overs, lack of feeling and young cult symbols gravving their throats (thoughts.).

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And gotten the stare from Sally’s eye of social understanding, involvement, her acknowledgement as Richard and Betty (my first love) walked by. I have seen the movies and heard the crowds laugh and heard them hiss, and yell at one another, and walked around outside after them all.I have been on campus, in school, at home, camp, abroad, involved and excluded myself to sit out this dance and find who had made out my dance card anyway. 21

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I have seen Buddhists sit in the midst of this and miss it. I have seen my sister sigh her life’s long sigh of relief, like your last urination as your bladder releases when you die, when she got a rock on her hand. I have heard a beckoning call and see into the future of the now disentangling arrangements. I have seen boats with motors and sails and stereo equipment and many cameras and liquor and drugs and paper and pens and even my few friends, so far, all jumbled together by electric mixers. I have seen the rising sun in N Y. harbor paris madison montauk denmark holland and london and the setting light in so many bodies. I have thought much on why and found no conclusions to be seen right now.