[Newspoetry] Oh fuck it newspoetry lost

Scott Rettberg rettberg at eliterature.org
Thu Dec 5 22:46:20 CST 2002


Oh fuck it newspoetry lost

I mean man oh I am about to go making
line
breaks
again newspoetry lost that
Futrelle guy we were counting on him because his last name was so close to
the Future
oh fuck it man
newspoetry lost it failed to disrupt the rightwing turn to the
right
so
fuck it woman
newspoetry lost it turned out our scrawlings turned out to be no
thing
and I blame it on the Futrelle because goddammit the guy had vision and
newspoetry lost it man
I'm sitting in a bar
a bar in New York City
a bar in Philadelphia
a bar in Santa Barbara
a bar in Chicago
a bar in Urbana
a bar in my right
butt
cheek
newspoetry lost man it
lost big
the republicans
did you know that the bar owners in
England are
called
publicans? you knew that but what I'm saying
and I was trying to say that with a lower
case I but Microsoft prevented me is
that newspoetry lost god
dam
mit
and 
fucking re:
publicans
won
and I'm not crying in my beer
that's just salt water
dude
newspoetry lost
how many newspoems were lost?
well count the dead dear motherfucker
I'm sorry about that
Bill Gates keeps correcting my mistakes
newspoetry lost my friend
in the war against terror
terror won
terror one
newspoetry lost
how many newspoems were lost?
you can count them in each
individual
life
that
was
lost
my
friend
more
than
a
hundred
less
than
a trillion
FUCK

Newspoetry failed
to stop war.

Newspoetry failed
to guarantee universal health.

Newspoetry failed
to get a living wage for all American workers.

Newspoetry failed
to always be entertaining.

Newspoetry failed
to give candy.

You miss newspoetry?

shut up man

I miss newspoetry.

don't mention that

Because it was important that--

you'll get us killed

people expressed.

WHAP BOOM BAMM

I miss newspoetry.





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