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Literary Wh( By MAR Note: This is the star The contributors are s who has anything good I first short story, "Three mine at Havard Univer Mass., and I chose it for I I. time: late afternoon; day. place: a bank on one sit on the Eastern shore o action: A boy, eight yej river bank. The boy's k attitude and his face, i there aren't any tears. I just don't feel like know what's wrong witl stupid because I don't can't hear her. Sometin school. I never feel like or doing the right thing. Charles and I came her little fish. They caught throw my line out far en( I just quit trying. Why? and see.. .when I hold thi enough. But I have to I closing: The boy clutchi falls on his knees. He di and lies in it. Stretching soft weeds, the begins tc tightly and are full of we runs fast along the bank II. time: about 1:00 at place: in bed. action: A woman and h next to each other. He and returned only a fev around her, and they ar quiet now. The woman Traveli indivi( v (IARLES FELLE] Staff Writer Steve Kek is a ecologist. He wears his to cover a scar on the b head, the scar was the ] wound when a Mexic. tried to lop off his heai was on a trip to South. Kek and his are will today and tomorrow. He truck around 5 p.m. eai Kek is an artist w matchbook size picti cerning ecology, the 60's and the performing paintings are on exhibit and gray panel truck front of Russell House. One of the features of t which is sponsored by E what Kek calls "cine ~'These pictures are an trip." he said. "TIhey are similiar to I you see what your su wants you to see, or ne< T[his art stimulant "is e correct because it's nati said. "LSD is an inorganic that can scramble .yi where art is natural." Kek created the mir the theory that tele' caused 'limited visiot -We are used to qui perception where the e) everything at a glance. can see the painting ifl it: A series of exquisite .olumn %re The I;ARET SWENSEID t of a new literary column. udents and others. Anyone a welcome to submit it. The Scene&" Is from a friend of vity Extention, Cambridge, ta original lay out. school has just let out for the le of the broad Chester River, if Maryland. irs old, is walking along the iead is lowered in a resigned F we could see it, is sad. But He is thinking: doing anything, and I don't i me. The teacher thinks I'm answer her questions. But I kes I don't even know I'm in my body is in the right place Last Saturday when Joey and e to fish, I only caught one, lots, and big ones. I couldn't >ugh and Joey helped me, but Ican't even feel my legs now s branch, I can't hold it tight eel it. bs at the bark of the tree and gs frantically in the wet soil his body and rolling over the cry. His hands are clenched eds and mud. He gets up and We know he feels joy. night. er husband are lying in bed bas been gone for two weeks v hours ago. His arm is still, e very close to each other but is thinking: rg ecol og lual tri qBAUM on the American bg seen through the w traveling truck. The eagi hair long because it is ai ack of his species. 'esult of a The focal point o in Indian ecology. The exh I when he shown at colleges A.merica. all over the coun be around sponsored by the closes the group. Students wI :h day. with E~CO 70's can ho paints truck. ires con- Kek often cam 'historical museum on wheels arts. His eats there sometinm at his blue bread was halt vi parked in backdrop hlanket. 'Camping ou be exhibit, ecology." he said CO 70's, is away from a total painting." environment living individual beliefs and gettin earth." ,,SDin that --I was up at C xconscious people were campi ads to see. f1oys' and girls leas :ologically edge of the woods iral," Kek from it all." substance ''Ecology is a con ur genes of life. It's a cor living. breathing, i atures on ''Getting back ti ision has solve a lot'of econo habits." health problems. ck visual penses could be re e takes in Kek's art is. Thus, you ..Nxpanding yourrn totality.' of' aesthetically c mnItr watis ecological] -- - - - - -- Turtles It is so still and dark. My whole body is dropping awa; are disappearing and by bell: can touch it but it isn't mine. husband, but I feel overwhel body away. It's because he's bigger. I remember once wa back, which was like a wa larger. closing: She stretches her le deeply. Her husband holds he their bodies gently back and begins to feel like a warm i breast which is being held E says it's alright now and they Ill. time: 9:30 in the mornir place: A small wing on a mi hospital. action: Lying on one of the fii late fifties. He looks much ol stiff even when relaxed on hereditary and he will be rounds in a few minutes. As tN bed to move him to a stretcher I can't even sit in a chair n< my body to a crowd of people left in front of these nurses. down, but they put them on a: on my back and legs--how ca know the doctor will lift the sl Yesterday he asked how I brothers lived. Yes, my fatht and spent years with this se through the front lobby and up look at myself. I don't want have to see me.. My bones are burst open so my body shoul closing: The nurses open the the amphitheater. He looks students and is suddenly afrai now to end his own pain. S ' Id eagle can be ndshield of the is featured i endangered fKek's work is ibit has been nd universities [ry, each stop local ecology o wish to work sign up at the as out in his and apparently es too. A loaf of sible under the is active . It's getting y materialistic |E your ecological closer to the pe Cod. Many ig out up there.I ethe car at the and get away 2ept of all parts aplete culture; ating." nature could nic, social and Medical ex :uced." n his words, iind by a series rrect images* v right." Go] legs are heavy and my V from me. My breasts r seems far away as if I D God, I am close to my med. He has taken my stronger than I am and king up and seeing his 1l, growing larger and gs and body, breathing r to his chest and rocks forth. Unitl at last she 'emale bird with a full ently in the hand. She move apart to sleep. 1g. m's ward in a general Stop the 'st beds is a man in his der, and his limbs are the bed. His gout is W presented at genetics vo nurses approach the , he is thinking: in th E >w, and I have to show Ah, I have no dignity The world stops My pants are pulling p.m. in the I riyway. The open sores Cafeteria with n they look at them. I traveling Broad ieet and point at them. production of "Stb ong my parents and Want To Get Off." r was 75 when he died has just conclud me pain. We're going world-wide tour i a ramp. I don't want to Warner who has bf those young doctors to a talented blend deformed and my skin Cagney. Gene Ke dn't be alive. Marceau. loor and wheel him into --stop The Worl up at the doctors and award winning s< d that he is too helpless songs--"What Kinc Once in a Lifetin Build A Mountaii Newley. The Arts Con University Union i production in coop A R.A. Slater Serv is by I.D. at the doc allowed per I.D. 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