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The hole in my shoe grows bigger and I am not about to change it for any other shoe. Not so I can swing from a tree. There is a skull in the bathroom sink and a hell I cannot describe. I think of yellow juju gumdrops now. I empty my pockets onto the rug; contented that each item serves its useful purpose. I make a list and I itemize, carefully and not too fast. 1/2 bottle of LePages white glue 1 linty toothpick (the disposable kind) shards of glass & fingernail bitings a small green dumptruck At least there are a few small comforts in this crummy day. Doyou miss winit e¥ 0 lympis Aelevision coverage: Do yen MISS — aleuf Free Vrake’ Do you miss them £; \ning The Begcleombers ay scheel De you miss pew) tun cvep by a bus: tiny re a Sean Thompson graduated from the Printmak- ing Department last year. Since then it’s been a whirlwind summer of sparkling social events including: grandparent’s 50th wedding anniver- sary in Wolseley, Saskatchewan; giving blood twice; ; ys ee B EY ON D pormmavow doubunsui dacub sajey tyaks like anofher ond aly5$ Restricted and distressed I try to stop and concentrate but the sound of my gummy white feet quietly dripping grows louder it is so unfair. The red Pinto is honking its horn outside. What a menace to society I must be, if only they could see me now, locked in my room and picking the sand out of my belly button. Oh, but I know when I have been decieved and I do not waste the time repining over the shaky judgement of a 1973 red Pinto. I only wish that this time the job had been done right. Kelly Constabaris Kelly Constabaris graduated in Fine Arts from ECCAD in 1988. She is now in the real world, too embarrassed to tell us where she works. Artisti- cally, she'll be having a show of computer prints and paintings at McEwen’s Arts in February. 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