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James Borders
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Lindy Alden
Poetry
3 Drunk Haiku 1 Kevin J. Bourque
About Literature 2 Amianda
Anti-Domestication 3 Pam Richards
Propaganda
About Woman 4 Noelle McMullen
Alice and the Aluminum Box 6 Pam Richards
apartment a 7 dk Lux Inc.
Bruce Lee Meets My4th Grade 8 Kevin Bourque
J.
PianoTeacher
Cafe Latte With a Double Shot of 9 Justine Courtney Reilly
Pretension
Can't Rhyme 10 Andrew Sutton
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Curmudgeon's Corner 10 IckE. Poo
Chinese a Deux 11 Justine Courtney Reilly
Conclusions 12 Rhiannon Roberts
Elementary Expressions 25 Danielle Metoyer
Desiccation 26 Micheal Arnaud
Masks 27 Hollie Moran
Exits 28 Jason Maricle
Falling 30 Paula Crover
For Emily 31 Kevin Bourque
J.
Haiku 31 Jason Maricle
Highway Flower 32 Kevin Bourque
J.
I Heart the third grade 33 Pam Richards
Leanan Sidhe 34 Anthony Palazzo
Les Poissons Rouge 35 Pam Richards
a lost love 36 Thien-Kim Lam
Mother's Meatloaf 41 Pam Richards
My Dad Eats the Guts ofan '84 42 Kevin Bourque
J.
Rabbit
Negativity 43 Rowan Grove
Not a Love Poem 48 Micheal Armaud
Peas 49 Pam Richards
Porphyria's Revenge 50 Justine Courtney Reilly
Rage 52 Noelle McMullen
Without Explanation 71 Danielle Metoyer
Poem Anti-Poem 72 Justine Courtney Reilly
The Presence ofYou 75 Natashia Horton
Virgo 76 Jennifer Read
Spacedog 77 Kevin Bourque
J.
Locked Door 78 Hollie Moran
Rationalizing 79 Danielle Metoyer
Rhi' s Other One 80 Rhiannon Roberts
Rocketry 82 Kevin Bourque
J.
The Jerk 83 Hollie Moran
Storm Brewing 95 Kevin Bourque
J.
The Face ofTaranis 96 Anthony Palazzo
The River ofTruth 97 Anonymous
fiction
Maria's Wedding 38 Kevin Bourque
J.
Nothing But Static: Living in an 44 Melissa M. Bahs
Age ofMedia
Rosalvn's BriefBrush With Life 84 Keith Shirley
Delta"Downhome" Blues 14 Melissa M. Bahs
Deludes Epiphanes 18 Sherry Talton
Opening My Eyes Before 53 Sherry Talton
I
Speak: Ethos, Ethics, and the
Role ofAudience in Rhetoric
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The Gray Matter: The Rhetoric- 98 SherryTalton
as-Epistemic
Controversy
The Three Step Easy-to-Use 105 Kneece Camp
Handbook for Finding
Harmony in Your Soul and
Meaning in Your Life.
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The Many Faces ofDeath in 108 Randy Price
Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale
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Argus Amy McFarlain
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Toilet vi Bill Murphy
Eyes 80 Bill Murphy
Indian 1 1 Matthew Dawson
Disclaimer:
The ideas and opinions either exressed or im-
plied within this publication are not necessarily
those ofthe editorial staffofArgus nor ofthe
,
administration or staffof Northwestern State
University.
IV
After many sleepless and nervewracking
nights, Argus 1998 is finally here. It has proven to
be quite a challenge to create two books under
one cover, but, as editor, welcome the challenge.
I
I could not have done it without a willing and pa-
tient stafFand the undying help ofmy devoted
Design and Lay-out Editor, Desiree' Nash, who
spent endless hours straining over tedious tasks.
I
can only hope that our hard work has p2ii(\-off
and that you, the reader, will be pleased with
Argus 1998
.
As a Student Publication, Argus can only
be as good as the submissions turned in by the
students ofNSW. Congratulations to everyone
who won the contests and to everyone who
is
A
published in Argus special thanks goes out to
. —
everyone who submitted to Argus without you
our staffhave nothing to do. urge each and ev-
I
ery student to submit his or her creative works to
next year's contests. After all you will never be
published ifyou never submit.
Sandy Baber
Editor-in-Chief
VI
3 drunk haiku
beerbottles resting
on the green coffeetable:
frogs on lilypads.
my vomit blooms in-
to the bowl: gastrointest-
inal gardenia.
the world spins and I
reel drunken to the carpet:
a tree has fallen.
Kevin J. Bourque
ARGUJ
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You, the Reader,
the Consumer ofFiction,
ofPoetry, Instead, think ofme as the pen-
offlowing Prose;
cil
look not down upon me.
you keep in your breast pocket,
am the person who
I orthe pen lying there on your
signs his name upon
desk.
the literature you hate Through me
and at the same time
Essays,
love, Poems,
yet I did not write it. Books,
Therefore,
Letters
when you stay up
are created - are given life -
all night readingjust to cry at an unfair yet the ideas are not mine.
ending know not from where,
I
where the hero dies, or from Whom,
or is forevercursed to live my literature comes.
without love, only put down on paper.
I
dInonnooctendtessphiasveemdei.ed in my stories, Blame me not, for I am not
guilty.
but I didn't kill them. Likewise, praise me not,
IfI could spare any suffering, for I am not worthy.
I would. am but an Instrument
I
and, like your pencil,
know not ofwhat
The Hand That Guides me
writes.
Rmiarfia
