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[Editorial Note: The Σ ^o_piñions below reflect the ^o_piñions of Ñ eyeOre.]

Trini-Dada Boyzzz: “The Mother of All Street Meat”

It started as a rumor^W circulating through the mid^Àtown ghost buildings north of Bryant Park where David Blaine had been standing atop a pole waiting to jump^Γ. I witnessed (and smelled) the food with my own eyes (and nose) when a threshold guardian brought it back to our suite^p. Always one to live by the motto^Ф “you got to see it to believe it,” I had to taste it for myself.

When I went to where it was expected to be, it wasn’t there^●. The first time was a fluke^ζ, perhaps, but when it wasn’t there after 8⁸ straight visits, I was inclined to believe it was a conspiracy of the senses. When I confronted^σ my threshold guardian, who had been eating it every day, she said my logic was skewed^Ə. “You have to believe it to see it,” she told me. “It’s there for me.”

It was easy for her to say, being from Trinidad herself, and an eat-to-liver at that. She described the exact location on 43^rd street and 6^th avenue^Χ. I found the greased footprints on the sidewalk^ψ, but no stand. After a week of fasting and a strict regiment of positive visualization, it finally appeared^¤. There it was at the end of a long queue of other believers, patiently standing^k in the line that stretched down the corner and around the block^שּ.

^¢ = Non-¢.

^W The word “tongue” was used 6 times in this issue.

^À The tangent is defined by a straight line that meets a curve at a point, but does not intersect it. [L. tangere tangent – touch]

^Γ There are 6 bridges in this issue.

^p The letter “p” was used 503 times in this issue.

^Ф The word “mouth” was used 8 times in this issue.

^● A black body cavity is defined as a heated vessel whose hole (in theory) gives off black light when the temperature reaches zero. In reality the spectrum is defined by αe^-E/kt, breaking classical expectations and giving birth to quantum physics.

^ζ 1. Any parasitic worm of the class Dignea, including blood flukes. 2. A broad triangular plate on the arm of an anchor. 3. Either of the lobes on a whale’s tail.

⁸ 8=5+3=3+2+2+1=2+1+1+1+1+1+1

^σ There are 5 references to shellfish in this issue.

^Ə Oblique, slanting. Lying in 3 dimensions. A bridge with the line of the arch not at a right angle to the abutment.

^Χ There are 8 contrived geographical partitions in this issue.

^ψ There are 6 different species of bird in this issue.

^¤ There are 11 bodies of water in this issue.

^k There are 23 knees in this issue (11½ pairs).

^שּ There are 11 different species of mammal in this issue.

^§ If ingested, this issue has 72 calories,5 grams of crude fiber, 2 grams of crude protein and  <1 gram of crude fat.

^ك Clay or mud was used 9 times in this issue.

^ς Of The Cure fame.

^! The face on a bill should be treated as unit and not a unique individual.

²⁵ Five times five senses. 

(c) 2004 by Derek White