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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

The Sweepstakes of Hunger [Today's News Poem, June 9, 2010]

The Sweepstakes of Hunger [Today's News Poem, June 9, 2010]

The vermin that crawled from the mouth of the chairman:
The flies with the faces of humans—yes, insects
That fell to the pages of canon in shape of
A blueprint—a ledger of life! And he holds it
And reads the report to assembled committee:
“My father has many fine thrones in his kingdom,
Enough for a kingdom of kings—but our servants
Will serve in the next life as surely as present.”
The spiders on parchment are eaten. The offspring
Are hatched in an instant and leave through the nostrils
As flies made of promise, that leave from the palace
In briefcases, squirming in spreadsheets and margins.
And fluttering free from their cases, they frenzy
And chew through the kittens in boxes of cardboard—
And shit out a replica kitten in pieces.
But mostly they feed on the crust and the sunlight—
These monads of promise, these tools of interment—
Replacing the nothing of spirit with credit
And asset: a swap that we made for a ticket
Of lice in this sweepstakes of ravenous hunger.

“Mr. Bernanke’s comments, at a hearing of the House Budget Committee, reiterated his view that the economic recovery would most likely be slow and painful for many Americans. The Fed projects gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity, to rise about 3.5 percent this year — a pace barely above that needed to keep pace with the growth in the labor force.”
– Sewell Chan, The New York Times, June 9, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/business/economy/10fed.html?hpw

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DEAD Aquaman & the Oil Spill Kids [Twitter Found Poem, June 9, 2010]

DEAD Aquaman & the Oil Spill Kids [Twitter Found Poem, June 9, 2010]
Tweets+Edits=#twitterfoundpoem

it's my Favorite show:
THE BP Oil Spill Kills Aquaman
OMG I cracked up when it shows
Aquaman moving to protect the kids from the Oil.
And OMG THE Aquaman kids Appearing
In TV Commercials And Magazine Ads?
OMG I cracked up.

SO HERE'S THE PLAN:
I Could Become Rich Appearing
In TV Commercials And Magazine Ads.
jump into the Oil for 3 months...
buy Google ads...
buy TV Commercials And Magazine Ads
SO I Could Become Rich Appearing
on my Favorite show:
DEAD Aquaman & the oil spill kids,
starring me as DEAD Aquaman.

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