[Newspoetry] No more middlemen!

[Newton Bigelow]

Yes, except I never paid Porter a damn nickel.



Quoting Editor-Within-Chief :
> Is this related to the following report from the Onion?
> 
> U.S. Middlemen Demand Protection From Being Cut Out
> WASHINGTON, DC—Some 20,000 members of the Association of American Middlemen 
> marched on the National Mall Monday, demanding protection from such 
> out-cutting shopping options as online purchasing, factory-direct catalogs, 
> and outlet malls. "Each year in this country, thousands of hard-working 
> middlemen are cut out," said Pete Hume, a Euclid, OH, waterbed retailer. 
> "No one seems to care that our livelihood is being taken away from us." 
> Hume said the AAM is eager to work with legislators to find alternate means 
> of passing the savings on to you.
> 
> At 12:03 AM 6/26/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> >Good afternoon newspoets,
> >
> >After much persuasion on the part of my representative in the US, I've set 
> >up my own email account.  The 'internet cafe' has never really taken off 
> >here in Madrid, but one of my local bistros now has an old pc in the back 
> >room.  It doesn't handle multimedia very well, but it's ok for text and 
> >small image files.  So, from now on I'll be sending my despatches straight 
> >to you, without the extra step of sending things by 'snailmail' to the 
> >States.  I'll also be avoiding Porter's capricious and unsolicited editing 
> >of my work (he's such a stick-in-the-mud).
> >
> >My host Javier is babbling something at me about tying up his phone line, 
> >so I'll stop here.  More newspoems to come as the muse permits.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >
> >Newton 
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> Best regards,

Newton

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