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i said: i've never had this ezine ready for the 1st of any given month, cept 2x's...maybe...
you said: i don't see why not you have a whole god damn month.
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hapPy 4th anniversary the-hold.com haPpy birthday buk woulda been 82 and just for old times sake you can hear buk read his poem "Just for Old Times Sake"
--- also visit buk's updated website bukstuff - poems - this month's short story: THE BIRTH, LIFE, AND DEATH OF AN UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPER...also, pix art lifted from across the internet /
now don't you wish YOU were in here?
~~celebrate~~celebrate...read it naked & leap into this the-hold.com
~~~ good night(s) dave xo cait
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a note - there can't be a better selection of writing goin' down than what the unique authors, artists and photographers at the hold expose to us each month. it's like 'being there' and so now i thank all of the contributors, and readers as well, for your devotion to the-hold.com. let us pray...err play..lol now slobber with yer pants down ...uh... carry on. cait

Michael Hathaway
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Chery 'cat' Townsend
...Under Moons...is award winning poet, Cheryl Townsend's new CD in collaboration with Pointless Orchestra. it includes electronic modifications of Cheryl's voice, electronic collages, a gamelan-like piece for voice and scrap metal, and a reflective melody on a Chinese zither that wanders around a bit of spoken text. ..listen to some tracks from cats cd at the spokenhold...


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• haPpy biRthDay toO
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