[Newspoetry] ABP: calling all poets

[Nick Montfort]

Car 404 responding to entreatment. Newspoem:

"Top Row Retort"
-- by Nick Montfort

I tore out type ere I wrote, to type up top:
upper typewriter row, pert repertoie.

Reporter, I quote to you: To write, pop type out.
Retire typewriter row two. Your tri-row?

Rip it out, too. Tour your top row territory.
Queer tip, you retort? I worry your poor typewriter?

To torque it out -- typewriter terror?
You require row two, your tri-row prop?

You pout, try to quip. (Poor etiquette.) You titter.
(Poorer propriety.) You utter uppity output?

Quiet, you! Quit it! You purport to write. 
I tire to peer to your rot, your petty writ,

to eye your wire report. You write pyrite,
terrier to torpor. I pity you, preppie yuppie.

I tutor you, tyro, to uproot your trite tree, 
put type to pyre. Rupture type. Write to write.

I erupt. I riot. I prototype pure power
to write. I, upper typewriter requiter.

I outwit you, too. To perpetuity, I write poetry.
You, to put it true, putter out rote poop.

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-Nick Montfort                    We put the "er..." back into hypertext.
<www.nickm.com> <nickm at nickm.com>       The Ed Report. <www.edreport.com>

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Joe Futrelle wrote:

> I'm down on my knees
> I'm beggin you please
> write some newspoems now
> or I'll have to write them somehow
> 
> my poetic finesse
> is decidedly less
> than I'd like it to be
> so please write some for me
> 
> Out website will languish
> in this no-content anguish
> the investors will chortle
> when it turns to a portal
> 
> So sing the soundbite electric
> send me poems eclectic
> on the stories that strike you
> 
> and I'll extra like you
> 
> --
> Joe Futrelle
> Editor-within-chief,
> Newspoetry dot com
> 
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