Clinton St. Quarterly, Vol. 6 No. 3 Fall 1984 (Portland)

■MANC Drawing bg Susan Gofstein A r -A i O ■ Be a man — that is the first and last rule of the greatest success in life. Saturday Evening Post, 1905 You have many contacts Among the lumberjacks To get you facts When someone attacks Your imagination. Bob Dylan I don 1know exactlg how it happened, but someu 'here in between 7th andSthgrade. Hostmg know-how. Considering the timeframe. / assume it was a bad reaction to pubertg. And all thatpubertg implied. I didnot catch on to the adaptationprocess, and couldnot sail right into the next phase o f life: budding womanhood. I got C/inton St. Quarterly caughtflailing... in the rapids. The childhood phase was a cruise. I had two best friends, Mary and Billy, and the three of us knew how to have fun. Wg were the quickest runners, best hitters, most effective hiders, and earliest risers on the block. That Billy was a boy had absolutely nothing to do with anything that touched our triumphant world. Then puberty slid in. And SHOOBOP,

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