TODAY'S NEWS

A sunburst of red, yellow & orange

on the fold of pants where ass joins leg

mesmerizes me, it's like a friendly fire.

I drive to the post office, only to find it locked.
20 years ago, Maria Salvio spoke at Sproul Plaza.
Reagan and Gromako cautiously talk 

of improving US-USSR relations.

At least there was no bloodshed, or shoes thrown.

Jerry Brown and Jane Fonda make the news.

Russia think-tanks, fire in the hole.

A Scottish-Polish American soldier, 

Wladyslaw Stanislawski, awarded citizenship 

posthumously, for dying in Vietnam.

But he's already dead, I think to myself.

Berkeley Mayor Gus Newport declares 

Monday as Free Speech Day, I was there,

I didn't know the significance, I was young. 

And Chris Foley, a high school student,

receives microfiche from Russia 

on US classified missile plans.

it's a long chain of events,

today, getting the news. 

12/2/1984

rev. 17/11/15