I will not barf unless I'm sick
I will not barf unless I'm sick
I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers

I will not barf unless I'm sick
I will not barf unless I'm sick
I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers

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In this startling piece, our poet Ethan Alexis poignantly contrasts the chalkboard punishment of anti-hero Bart Simpson against the sort of crass advertising we see every day in newspapers, on television and in unsolicited commercial e-mail.

He deftly toys with the never-ending struggle between our lust for new gadgets and toys on one hand, and the oppression and monoculture imposed on us by big-business and government interests on the other.

Towards the end of the piece big-business' mask slips and the reader is admonished to "check it out here! ... to get off our list" - a thinly vield threat if there ever was one.

Finally Bart's chalkboard monotony is repeated, interspersed with random garbage, implying the simultanious break-down of Bart's will and society itself:

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