[Newspoetry] death of a newspoet
Joe Futrelle
futrelle at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Tue May 23 00:34:30 CDT 2000
a hollow look in the eyes
carpal tunnel syndrome
clutching a 56k modem
discarded laptops line the alleyway
wrapped in copies of USA Today
this flophouse once had DSL, now
just a single phone line
they share phone cords
mice,
Mallarme anthologies,
rubber cement
pirated cable brings them CNN,
CSPAN, on a 9-inch black and white
TV
they watch the hearings,
listening for rhymes
some will never break out
of the news cycle
newspoetry cannot pay
the phone, cable bills
they are addicts
live feed-to-feed
require larger and larger browsers
for the same effect
there is no more news today
just an obituary
one for the archives
index by poet
--
Joe Futrelle
Editor-within-chief,
Newspoetry dot com
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