ARTICLES
Shlug Kapores
"I had to go all the way
to the slaughterhouse in Johnston,
he cries, as he pops open the top
to reveal two live chickens, shrieking in terror,
emerging from their box, white,
but covered with brown liquefied feces."

Nineteen Wilful Men
Part I
"Those white flags,
for some sad reason, reminded me of the scraps of paper,
hastily-scrawled notes, that, they tell us,
were found along the tracks, there where
the trains bound for Triblinka, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz
had passed in the night."
Part II
"We were off by more than
a year-and-a-half because disasters,
like history and love, are never kind enough
to come exactly on schedule.
Thus, the 21st Century arrived at
8:45 in the morning, 11 September 2001."

READINGS
Menstrual Modesty
"The entire Federal Cabinet
was pelted with tampons and pads,
and politicians were confronted by
women carrying signs that read I bleed and I vote.
One woman even dressed up as a tampon."

Garbology: Part I
"What they did was to station observers
in mess halls to record the types of food that were
most commonly wasted and the volume of waste by type of food.
The result, after 2.4 million man-meals had been observed,
was a textbook example of how garbage studies
can produce not only behavioral insights
but also practical benefits."
Garbology: Part II
Slops (Garbage Project code number 069)
comprise a stew of such things as coffee grounds, fruit parts,
rotten vegetable bits, cigarette butts, grit of unknown origin,
and the sort of gooey canned mush epitomized by Chef Boyardee ravioli;
somehow, in the course of every garbage bag's journey from kitchen to truck,
all of these substances find one another
and intimately coalesce."