HOME DELIVERY -- FOR CHARLES WATTS AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO WAS THERE   sitting in your garden that dusky August evening near the tree heavy with pears you remarked we never did share a bowl of hot and sour from the Buddhist place we'd been planning on for eons and laughed "this isn't exactly it" as you sipped my chicken soup   two nights later and your last the space between each of your breathes an eternity when callers asked how you were you joked "oh I've been better"   the energy emanating from you swirled around with the intensity of birth and so soon -- the ashes in the beautiful urn were incredibly fine just like you     LOBILIZATION   the anti-APEC protest was a dream demo every announcement had a "please" in it and they were giving out free food in a blink the riot police appeared primed and pumped with their own terror that made them terrifying first beating billy clubs on plexiglass shields which glistened in the night rain then swinging indiscriminately didn't matter if they hit a video camera or a kidney organizers stressed non-violence "sit down, sit down, so they'll know we're peaceful" somebody shouted "god for prime minister" aren't we in enough trouble as it as?" I asked at the possibility of dogs arriving everyone with a child was encouraged to leave I was tired, cold, wet, and had to pee but couldn't quite tear myself away until a regular trouble-maker from a Stalinist group seized a megaphone and ordered "nobody leave this demonstration" totally missing the point this was about freedom and that's when I left

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