[Newspoetry] Grim Old Newspoetry Sadly Must Be Recycled

[Mike Lehman]

Grim old Newspoetry sadly must be recycled

There’s always a new generation

That forgets the lessons of the past

Some waggish troll

More fingertips than brains

“Just a Thought” that doesn’t require much thinking

http://www.ucimc.org/node/1225#comment-1558

Or a first person encounter with the realities of imperialism

So you search into that old bag of tricks

You’re saddened and sickened

By the trite trollery

Of the blogger crowd

That try to skewer words greater than theirs

Their weakness speaks volumes

About the calumnies they so airily dismiss

Then I try to bring in some reality

In which no one truth prevails

Just enough to irritate the neocons

And bring them back for more blood

When I have to dig in the cache for

http://tinyurl.com/375pft

Does it become Newshistory?