[Newspoetry] NEWS FLASH from SEATTLE

[Paul Kotheimer]

AM Radio 770, Seattle's business news station reports that the Puget Sound
Index, which measures Wall Street stock prices on Seattle-area based
corporations, is up today--'way up--no doubt thanks to ample wining and
dining of the capitalists of the world by Microsoft schmoozelers at fine
restaurants inside downtown Seattle's 1st-amendment-free zone.

Also, things are "getting back to normal" in the downtown area, according
to the same source, because "Santa Claus is back!...and he knows which
protesters have been naughty and which have been nice."  I'm not
making this shit up.

Starbucks is offering a free large Americano to anyone shopping in the
restored downtown outlets.

Be sure to write to the North Pole, kids, and ask Santa to bring you back
the right to peaceably assemble. Or better yet, fax Mayor Schell a copy of
the First Amendment.

 
*************************peace out from Paul Kotheimer.  

Our Jane Doe #1 has had her bail set at $950.  Maximum bail for a
misdemeanor charge is $1000.

All else here are well, though tired.  Home soon.