[Newspoetry] To the newspoetry CIO...

[Dirk Stratton]

>Hi Everybody
>
>I heard about Newspoetry from Mr. Fruchter, whom I should thank here for
>pointing it out to me. As the chief architect of www.americancheerleader.com
>(seriously) and other sites, I can say that the site is designed very well.
>And thanks for making my newspoem the Chosen One for a day. One suggestion:
>now that I'm in the database, I appear first in the alphabetically-sorted
>list of 2000 Newspoets. You mighta wanna change the sort so I'm not at the
>top, it's an honor I don't deserve.
>
>Mark A.
>---
>Mark Armantrout
>marmantr at imsa.edu
>
>

Mark--

While it is true that you have benefited from the "accident" of your 
last name, Newspoetry is an equal opportunity site dedicated to the 
word, and words rely on letters, and letters reside in the alphabet. 
While Newspoetry's revolutionary goals are wide-ranging and 
far-reaching, it has never indicated even the slightest desire to 
overthrow the alphabet.* Accept your fate as first among equals 
(though as one who has always been near the end of the line because 
of my own last name, I am touched by one of the alphabetically 
privileged being willing to forego the usual advantages accorded 
those with names that begin with those letters that appear earlier).

--Dirk Stratton (always 19th in line)

*Of course, now that this has been brought to our attention, and to 
the attention of that wildly radical Joe Futrelle (also 
alphabetically advantaged), who knows?