<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html><head><title>JELLYFISH MAGAZINE 1.0</title>



<style text="text/css">
<!-- 

body { background: url(jellywall2.gif);

background-repeat: repeat;
position: ;
background-attachment: fixed;
width: ;
font-family: helvetica; verdana; tahoma; georgia; garamond, arial, verdana, georgia,  arial;
font-size: 11px;
color: #303030;
text-align: justify;
line-height: 17px;
letter-spacing:1.3px;


}


 
}



td,body,div,tr
{font-family: arial, verdana, georgia, garamond, verdana; font-size: 10pt; }


A{color:BBDEF4;  text-decoration:none; }
A:link{color:black; text-decoration:none;  }
A:visited{color:black;text-decoration:none;  }
A:hover{color:black; text-decoration:none; }

-->
</style>

</head><body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" bgcolor="#BBDEF4" text="#000000">


<div style="position:absolute; left:619; top:365;; width:210; font-size: 7pt; letter-spacing:0.3px; text-align:justify">
<a href="index.html"><img src="numbaone.gif"border=0></a>
</div>






<div style="position:absolute; left:640; top:300; width:210; font-size: 7pt;letter-spacing:.9px; text-align:left">
<a href="zachsavich.html">Zach Savich</a><BR>
<a href="carolinecabrera.html">Caroline Cabrera</a><BR>
<a href="mikeyoung.html">Mike Young</a><BR>
<a href="adamcogbill.html">Adam Cogbill</a><BR>
<a href="davidbartone.html">David Bartone</a><BR>
<a href="christophercheney.html">Christopher Cheney</a> <BR>

</div>


<div style="position:absolute; left:750; top:300; width:210; font-size: 7pt; letter-spacing:.9px; text-align:left">
<a href="annececeliaholmes.html">Anne C. Holmes</a> <BR>
<a href="jeffdowney.html">Jeff Downey</a><BR>
<a href="arifeld.html">Ari Feld</a><BR>
<a href="lilyladewig.html">Lily Ladewig</a><BR>
<a href="philipmuller.html">Philip Muller</a><BR>
<a href="kimberlyabruzzo.html">Kimberly Abruzzo</a><BR>

</div>

<div style="position:absolute; left:855; top:300; width:210; font-size: 7pt; letter-spacing:.9px; text-align:left">
<a href="shannonludersmanuel.html">Shannon Luders-Manuel</a><BR>
<a href="stokelyklasovsky.html">Stokely Klasovsky</a><BR>
<a href="mirandadennis.html">Miranda Dennis</a><BR>
<a href="jaredsinclair.html">Jared Sinclair</a><BR>
</div>













<div style="position:absolute; left:120; top:0; width:446; height: 100%; background:; padding:4em 4em 4em;">
<BR><font size="6"><b>Jeff Downey</b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR>
<b><font size="3">The Whole Ball of Wax Museum Assassins</font></b><BR><BR>
<BR>
It was January.  One only observed <BR>
Silence and held up binoculars <BR><BR>

Seeing how any starlings at an inaugural look<BR>
A murmuration, our anarchist rather<BR><BR>

Distrusted the interval in <i>at</i> <BR>
At this, at needling times like this when<BR><BR>

Such as with chamoix and columnar architecture<BR>
There’s carryover from the Continent<BR><BR>

One interrogation, the attempter took a hundred<BR>
Quid pro quos before even confessing<BR><BR>

What his tattoos meant<BR>
They were nothing as archaic as cimarron or chinook<BR><BR>

The keystones of which we already knew<BR>
Ibex and sirocco were legends<BR><BR>

But what else he could have done with<BR>
A cutting stylus except rut <BR><BR>

His way out of the question <BR>
We were eventually let in on  <BR><BR>

How his plans had been to shoulder <BR>
The wait and have  <BR><BR>

Some steely reserve, knowing that one’s <BR>
Chances would improve in the improv<BR><BR>

Of relocating to Buffalo, which they did<BR>
And the shots at the president<BR><BR>

Who happened to be attending the very convention<BR>
X-rays were initially exhibited at<BR><BR>

First grazed then went through <BR>
The stomach, pancreas, and kidney<BR><BR>

Before lodging in the muscles of his back<BR>
The president whispered to his secretary, George Cortelyou<BR><BR>

“My wife, Cortelyou, be careful how <BR>
You tell her, oh be careful <BR><BR>

During this whispering, the anarchist would have fired<BR>
Again, he said, but was struck by a bystander and then<BR><BR>

Subdued by the enraged crowd<BR>
At which point, the wounded <BR><BR>

President called out “Boys<BR>
Don’t let them hurt him<BR><BR>

One imagines because he thought he would make it<BR>
But his doctors didn’t trust the safety of the machines<BR><BR>

Preferring to dig by the light properly<BR>
Arranged pans recurved into the room<BR><BR>

From down the hallway, up the stairs <BR>
And outside where the sun was <BR><BR>

By all accounts and records, startling <BR>

 
<BR><BR>
<BR><BR><b><a href="arifeld.html">Next</a> >>><BR><BR><BR>


<BR>

</div>
</body></html>�