From: Badger01@yabbs
To: Badger01@yabbs
Subject: Hello, everybody...
Date: Tue May 24 16:30:49 1994

Names Mattt, but those who like me call me Badger, and those what don't 
don't call me often. Yes, I really have 3t's in my name.
I'm a student at Roger Williams University majoring in Creative Writing in 
a Bachelor of Fine Arts program, and am a fiction writer. But I do write 
the occasional poem.

Why, here's one now! (Memory ofit, not the thing itself)

When I go on the machines my heart
unbeating
notliving they will
shove the blood
sluice it in my arms
carbonate the 
in my arms
hang me on the wall
throw your jackets down on me
look at my wax stubblestcu deadday expression
use me as a planter
an ornament
hang curtains on me 

I never want to die

Well, that's the most I can remember off hand.

Have a nice day, and remember that 
I said hello.

BTW_The poem came from a discussion on aggressive life support I had with 
a friend of mine who has since passed on. He disagreed.