The Political Issue
Vol. 4 Issue 2

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by John Faszczyk

  One must always keep a moist burlap sack by his side if the world is to be of any consequence to anyone.

   That's what Joey's father always said.

   Even when Joey accidentally hit himself in the nuts with a two by four and swayed painfully for two weeks while fearing the possibility of hernia or elephantiasis.

   One must always keep a moist burlap sack by his side if the world is to be of any consequence.

   The philosophy stood still, never changing. Even when he went to M.I.T. and he came up with the chemical formula that reacted violently with urine and blew up the toilets on the third floor and their occupants.

   One must always keep a moist burlap sack by his side if the world is to be of any consequence.