From mcirvin@scws36.harvard.edu Sat Sep 3 12:04:10 PDT 1994 In article , James "Kibo" Parry wrote: >People who troll for newbies will probably have scads of evil fun. >It seems to have started already. It has-- I'm suddenly seeing lots of threads in which the originator posts something, gets a perfectly ordinary followup, then follows up to that with "Hey, I only asked an innocent question, why are you using such a NASTY TONE OF VOICE? There's no need to BITE MY HEAD OFF!!! You people are all mean!" I believe that this is the first sign. To celebrate the influx of new and pure souls to the Net, I offer the following \<-|^a|)|) sybur-poetik ma|\|ifezto: O slipstream bitstream of cozmik bytes Cascading across universes of virtual space, cold as alien chrome Liberate us from the tyranny of flesh Into new flesh, pure & orgasmic & delocalized, the peaceful atom Out of the sight of deathweapon conspirators Out of the sight of the heavy hand of the past Into a place where epiphany arrives at the speed of light squared Into a place that is no place, where we send faxes from the beach Here is the astral info-plane of cyborg magicks A virtual reality where all body parts are pierced by the Light Meat and machine, we dance to the pulsing heartbeat of negentropy, a positive tetrahedron at the center of the cybersexual chakra; Away from dead rot and corruption and politics and people who don't like my poetry and the bully who used to snap his towel at me in the locker room and steal my lunch money and it wasn't fair and someday I'll show him ha ha HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone who doesn't like my poem is a mean old fuddy duddy! -- Matt 01234567 <-- Indent-o-Meter McIrvin ^ Harnessing tab damage for peaceful ends!