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Milton
had all the most admirable
bumper
stickers
boycott
veal, prochild-prochoice,
can't we all just get
along
in
fact, a good person could
get
just
about all the advice she
needed
from
the back of his
Bug
in
one
stoplight
he
was fluent in
multiculturalism and
biodiversity
you
could tell by the peace
signs and color-coded
ribbons
dangling
from the rear view
mirror
like
a
ponytail
the
latest voices of social
conscience
resounded
from
his removable
stereo
rappers,
earthy folk singers, world
music
there
was even a dent in the
wheel-well
left
by a police car pushing
through the anti-war
barricade
near
the Golden Gate
bridge
to
the unseen, the
underserved, the
underprivileged
his
Peacewagen was a beacon of
hope
in
the darkness of societal
inertia
a
statement of what was
really going
down
man,
that car had
character
at
least until last Friday,
that
is
when,
riding to work at the
shelter
his
girlfriend had her face
blown
off for being
zebra
I
bet when he gets all the
blood and glass and
teeth
out
of the
backseat
he
trades in
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Shelley Harrison
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