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Editor's note: Rick Skogsberg has provided four striking poems. By request, they are printed [throughout the newsletter] in the order you see them here.   The Weapon   His own weight His own face His own empty sucking well of nothing you'd like to know and he carries it everywhere He goes     Fear   is not by far the worst of private hells I mean what with all the adrenaline jumping around there's just no time to reflect on one's sins     Mastery Jr.   smile that bites the cord go forth gently and be nice to yourself     I'm Told That Ground-Fighting   is less effective without eye-gouges and biting I'm not sorry to hear it