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WHY MORMON MEN CAN’T BE TRUSTED — A ex-Mormon woman looks back at the Church. PLUS It’s fifty years since the Port Huron statement. Alexander Cockburn on the origins of SDS and one of the crucial documents of the 1960s. PLUS Two ounces of oil + a fishing boat + Homeland Security Incident #995038 = the onward march of totalitarianism in America. Read Captain Knutson’s story.
Marla Ruzicka, d. April 16
Embraced the living
and counted the dead.
The friends she left
invoke the ordinary
over greater pain: mis-
placing her cellphone,
giggling California girl
asking where the party is.
And such. Round against
these the usual demons,
ending with exhaustion,
depression. Furious wheel.
Afterwards to work for all
those battered by the roar-
ing beast. I don’t know
if saints march in. Marla
enters a dim chapel, blond
hair brushing light along
the Stations of the Cross.
FRANK B. FORD lives in Florida and can be reached at: frank_b_ford@yahoo.com