[Newspoetry] found newspoem

[William Gillespie]

Here's a newspoem I'm forwarding as a sort of FYI (For Your Inspiration).
The author, Jim Andrews, gave me permission to forward it to this list,
but should probably be contacted if you want to consider it a submission.
He said he liked Newspoetry because he could "actually read it." He also
hosts vispo.com, which is short for for visual poetry community (another
FYI).

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Poem by: Jim Andrews <jim at vispo.com>

.....

I read the msgs in the financial section of Yahoo
about an ecompany going down, 
lawsuit upon lawsuit
angry investors calling them liars and charlattans
stock price falling to pennies
Nasdaq threatening delisting,
reverse splits in an attempt to have the stock trade
above $1.00, not working,
formerly 750 employees
now 200.

But they are not charlattans and liars.
It is run by a salesman
who had big dreams
but could not figure out how to make money
on the net
and in that
he is hardly alone,
went from one to the next
buzzword of the day
changing business models every three months,
little to show for it in technology
after four years.

'Death of a Salesman'
still telling
truly of the American dream.

It isn't the thing we want
but the feeling
we feel
we will feel
from the thing.

We wanted to believe him.

We wanted to believe that it would all
work out in the end,
that the net
would transform the world
as it has us,
as we have the net.

But industrial ecommerce
is a very big engine
still early and tacked together
for small things, still,
not the mighty engines imagined and promised
not yet delivered,
no time in a gold rush
for such works,
time only for big promises
and six month dev cycles.

I know
this is hardly a poem
I have not written a poem
in years
yet have been doing nothing else.

And I am in a basement
writing art software
that I quit my job
to do
not making any money
yet
yet
yet
I want to believe I can and will.

j

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Sondheim [mailto:sondheim at panix.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:07 PM
> To: webartery at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [webartery] (still from on the road)
> 
> 
> -
> 
> 
> 
> go around and use whatever bricolage you can find
> gathering dust and clutter in whatever debris
> detritus or excreta whatever's available
> 
> suddenly an error and suddenly a piece
> everything becomes fodder for the text
> the text is a devouring maw
> the text hungers for content, i lose sleep, i don't know just when i'm
>    going to be able to stop, just when advance occurs
> 
>    when i think i have it right, there's an advance
>    or a relief that the clutter has coagulated into the semblance
>       of content
> 
>       when i think nothing of it, "don't think anything of it,"
>       "i didn't mean anything by it," there's stasis, prolongation
> 
>     sexual content mixes with the debris, it holds me there, fastens,
>      fashions, fascinates
>  it's what i found when i pulled inside you with my fingers, hand, wrist,
>    arm
>    what comes out mixes with error and excreta, debris and denouement
> 
>    coupling with lassitude, languor
>  so you can think about what has happened to you and the words
>  so you can think about the world and what is happening
>     it's built on debris and bricolage, on fragments and accumulations,
>    on fair and unfair portions, on shares and certifications
> 
>     again and again i have it right
>     again and again the world advances


 

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