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^4^^ 79<?7 s v,— • -v-'*~&>T/ **&"-^K *hj?-~2- £-^-'"^>£r*-;*JW*ir* r-<_ 4>«f ^997 V4S "5 I & Qpments ^root £over Resign James Borders J§ocb Qpver Resign Lindy Alden Poetry 3 Drunk Haiku 1 Kevin J. Bourque About Literature 2 Amianda Anti-Domestication 3 Pam Richards Propaganda About Woman 4 Noelle McMullen Alice and the Aluminum Box 6 Pam Richards apartment a 7 dk Lux Inc. Bruce Lee Meets My4th Grade 8 Kevin Bourque J. PianoTeacher Cafe Latte With a Double Shot of 9 Justine Courtney Reilly Pretension Can't Rhyme 10 Andrew Sutton I Curmudgeon's Corner 10 IckE. Poo Chinese a Deux 11 Justine Courtney Reilly Conclusions 12 Rhiannon Roberts Elementary Expressions 25 Danielle Metoyer Desiccation 26 Micheal Arnaud Masks 27 Hollie Moran Exits 28 Jason Maricle Falling 30 Paula Crover For Emily 31 Kevin Bourque J. Haiku 31 Jason Maricle Highway Flower 32 Kevin Bourque J. I Heart the third grade 33 Pam Richards Leanan Sidhe 34 Anthony Palazzo Les Poissons Rouge 35 Pam Richards a lost love 36 Thien-Kim Lam Mother's Meatloaf 41 Pam Richards My Dad Eats the Guts ofan '84 42 Kevin Bourque J. Rabbit Negativity 43 Rowan Grove Not a Love Poem 48 Micheal Armaud Peas 49 Pam Richards Porphyria's Revenge 50 Justine Courtney Reilly Rage 52 Noelle McMullen Without Explanation 71 Danielle Metoyer Poem Anti-Poem 72 Justine Courtney Reilly The Presence ofYou 75 Natashia Horton Virgo 76 Jennifer Read Spacedog 77 Kevin Bourque J. Locked Door 78 Hollie Moran Rationalizing 79 Danielle Metoyer Rhi' s Other One 80 Rhiannon Roberts Rocketry 82 Kevin Bourque J. The Jerk 83 Hollie Moran Storm Brewing 95 Kevin Bourque J. The Face ofTaranis 96 Anthony Palazzo The River ofTruth 97 Anonymous fiction Maria's Wedding 38 Kevin Bourque J. Nothing But Static: Living in an 44 Melissa M. Bahs Age ofMedia Rosalvn's BriefBrush With Life 84 Keith Shirley Delta"Downhome" Blues 14 Melissa M. Bahs Deludes Epiphanes 18 Sherry Talton Opening My Eyes Before 53 Sherry Talton I Speak: Ethos, Ethics, and the Role ofAudience in Rhetoric II! 9 The Gray Matter: The Rhetoric- 98 SherryTalton as-Epistemic Controversy The Three Step Easy-to-Use 105 Kneece Camp Handbook for Finding Harmony in Your Soul and Meaning in Your Life. . . The Many Faces ofDeath in 108 Randy Price Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale cAr* Argus Amy McFarlain i Toilet vi Bill Murphy Eyes 80 Bill Murphy Indian 1 1 Matthew Dawson Disclaimer: The ideas and opinions either exressed or im- plied within this publication are not necessarily those ofthe editorial staffofArgus nor ofthe , administration or staffof Northwestern State University. IV After many sleepless and nervewracking nights, Argus 1998 is finally here. It has proven to be quite a challenge to create two books under one cover, but, as editor, welcome the challenge. I I could not have done it without a willing and pa- tient stafFand the undying help ofmy devoted Design and Lay-out Editor, Desiree' Nash, who spent endless hours straining over tedious tasks. I can only hope that our hard work has p2ii(\-off and that you, the reader, will be pleased with Argus 1998 . As a Student Publication, Argus can only be as good as the submissions turned in by the students ofNSW. Congratulations to everyone who won the contests and to everyone who is A published in Argus special thanks goes out to . — everyone who submitted to Argus without you our staffhave nothing to do. urge each and ev- I ery student to submit his or her creative works to next year's contests. After all you will never be published ifyou never submit. Sandy Baber Editor-in-Chief VI 3 drunk haiku beerbottles resting on the green coffeetable: frogs on lilypads. my vomit blooms in- to the bowl: gastrointest- inal gardenia. the world spins and I reel drunken to the carpet: a tree has fallen. Kevin J. Bourque ARGUJ ^ 5 a X6out literature You, the Reader, the Consumer ofFiction, ofPoetry, Instead, think ofme as the pen- offlowing Prose; cil look not down upon me. you keep in your breast pocket, am the person who I orthe pen lying there on your signs his name upon desk. the literature you hate Through me and at the same time Essays, love, Poems, yet I did not write it. Books, Therefore, Letters when you stay up are created - are given life - all night readingjust to cry at an unfair yet the ideas are not mine. ending know not from where, I where the hero dies, or from Whom, or is forevercursed to live my literature comes. without love, only put down on paper. I dInonnooctendtessphiasveemdei.ed in my stories, Blame me not, for I am not guilty. but I didn't kill them. Likewise, praise me not, IfI could spare any suffering, for I am not worthy. I would. am but an Instrument I and, like your pencil, know not ofwhat The Hand That Guides me writes. Rmiarfia