[Newspoetry] poetry APB

[Newton Bigelow]

Good afternoon Newspoets,

Regarding the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, I was most certainly NOT there.  This yearly insanity is the biggest international yahoo-fest they have in this country.  People come from all over the world to get drunk, eat sausage, and antagonize enormous horned animals who would rather be doing just about anything besides charging through cramped city streets.  The only satisfying part of this psychotic tradition is being able to say 'I told you so' to anyone who actually gets injured.

It also attracts a disproportionate number of Americans, of exactly the sort I came here to get away from.  Call it my archaic sense of Southern gentility, but I can't stand to see my fellow countrymen behaving in such an undignified manner.  When I was growing up, we didn't use our animals for this kind of 'sport'.  Now mind you, I did have an uncle who bred roosters for cockfighting, but that's another story...

Spain is a wonderful country, with many proud and bizarre traditions, like the Mackeral-fest and herding sheep throught the middle of the capitol city, but when it comes to the Running of the Bulls, I have to differ with my hosts.  I don't see how provoking a dangerous and unpredictable situation, then plopping yourself smack dab in the middle of it deserves to be called anything but reckless buffoonery.


... or, come to think of it, US foreign policy.

Best regards,

Newton


Quoting Editor-Within-Chief :
> OK, people.  Newspoetry.com is facing a newspoetry drought.  Now more than 
> ever we need your contributions.  Even a poem a month can make a difference 
> for this poor, starving poetry website.  Plus it's completely 
> tax-deductible.  OK, so it's not.  But it doesn't cost anything except the 
> prose you would have otherwise written.
> 
> What to write about.  Well, there's juicy corporate scandal which is now 
> implicating Ross Perot, the plummeting stock market, the 7-million-year-old 
> humanoid skull, and ...
> 
> The Crown Victoria.  Seems police departments have noticed a Pinto-like 
> tendency for CV's to explode upon rear impact, much more common for police 
> cruisers than civilian CV's, because police cruisers tend to frequently be 
> parked on shoulders -- and they're suing Ford.  This seems like a good 
> Newspoetry topic for Your Aunt Barbara, Fatelli, or any of the rest of the 
> family who ought to defend the CV against this kind of slander.
> 
> Let's see.  There's running with the bulls.  Surely Newton Bigelow was there?
> 
> And I can't believe there was no Newspoetry about the world cup.  Are we 
> all living under rocks, or what?  (OK, admittedly I don't give a crap about 
> the world cup either).
> 
> Yucca mountain, anyone?  Any local stories inspiring verse?
> 
> I know what you're asking.  You're asking: what's in it for me?  Well, 
> that's a good question.  I'll have to think about that one.
> 
> 
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> Joe Futrelle
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