Notes from
Mouth #57
January
2000
Contents of this sample of Mouth magazine:
- AJ SAYS, an interview with Alene Jensen by Josie Byzek
- excerpts from Who's In Charge, a pictorial essay by the editor
- the full text of Letter To a Baby Who Was Thrown from a Bridge by Astra Milberg
- Fighting to Say Hello, a poem by John Kinnaird
- excerpts from Polly
Makes an Appearance
by Michael Bailey
To view any of the above, click on their names.
Mouth
#57 also includes articles by John O'Brien, Barbara Knowlen,
and Larry Biondi. O'Brien took on the subject of strings
being attached to the ideal of self determination.
"It seems straightforward," he
says. It's not always so when ideal meets
systematized reality.
Knowlen
gave us two articles on current events. One related that
centers for independent living seem to think that "those
people" with psych histories ought to get a different sort
of independence. "We have met the
enemy," she concludes, "and he is us."
Knowlen's
second article gave a blow-by-blow account of one man's
escape "from death's door nursing home in Florida to the
Mayo Clinic." Barbara was in on the whole adventure.
Larry
Biondi relates his long struggle to get state voc rehab to
subsidize his purchase of an assistive speech device. When
he first opened his mouth to ask for it,
"and I let my CP accent loose on him,
Charley came unglued. He told me to relax. 'Just relax.'
Then he called my office to ask my co-workers to translate
me for him. You probably think I'm making this
up."
Naturally,
Mouth likes it better when you buy the whole issue. It's 48
pages this time around, with all the stories and news and
cartoons, but still without ads.
To get your copy, send $5 to Mouth, PO Box 558, Topeka, Kansas 66601-0558 and specify #57. Better yet, order it in our Attitude Catalog online store.