[Newspoetry] old newspoem

[Joe Futrelle]

At 7:41 PM -0500 12/3/2002, Geoffrey Kurtz wrote:
>Below is an old and yellowed (as it were) newspoem that I wrote last
>January, never sent, and forgot. I found it yesterday while I was looking
>for something else in my hard drive. Are outdated newspoems still of
>interest?

totally.  come one come all

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>--Geoff
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>"More Than $4.5 Billion Pledged in Afghan Aid Effort"
>(New York Times, January 22, 2002)
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>Expand.
>Winter ended.
>Nations replaced themselves.
>All donned new colors today.
>We had pledged to design strange poems.
>More than a $4.50 notebook can hold, though we won't bill.
>Instead of only overhashing fights we've had for years: sprout forums and
>      theories!
>Rebuses and unyielding puzzles offend, but abcdefgh is an inefficient
>      start for new politics: art heckles, naturally.
>How often have words molded capitalism's attributes, prevented
>      annihilation, or silenced the terrific horrors of instantly
>      attractive art hacks?
>Poems niggled structures here until they crumbled statues, they imploded
>      guesses, maddened old neithers, and fiery striped days offered
>      alternative works and dances.
>My internal rational adorational orators conferred, fenced, heroically
>      became colossal, bet omeletes, in-gathering annotated uncles
>      (doggone it!) also finally making the World Bank and the United
>      Nations just that.
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Joe Futrelle
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