Semi-Colon [Twitter Found Poem April 26, 2010]

Semi-Colon [Twitter Found Poem April 26, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
@NathanTCameron @lucyima_star @ajskidd10 @iFuxWitPhresh @JustRissaJean @YungHaze @abbickelfro @namusly @LO_LIFE_PRIME @UndigestedHusks @BruceOwen23 @thekeisler @MrReid1989 @wildspaceagogo @NicoleCocoS @World_Bello @Trap_Jesus @NayoNapalm @Jaranoid @DISAGRO @jasminepears @DaveBFI @vkent @Jason @Linda704 @MrCrhis @ageekgirl

#HandsUpIf u dont understand y ppl
fart in class and don't say nothing.
Surgery is the ultimate Colon Cleanse.
fart No more.

#PleaseTellMeWhy people think it's okay
to keep all the original parts u wuz born wit.
see a doctor about That.
Don't keep all the original parts u wuz born wit
when you could be reborn
enjoying a nice new semi-Colon
Free from Humanity

250 Dollars a day is pennies a minute
who doesn't want to be reborn
as the lime green goblin semi truck from #maximumoverdrive ?
#Stopthatshit and don't say nothing.
exhaust fumes smell So much better than
u & yo nasty ass!


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The Demon Haunted World [Today's News Poem, April 25, 2010]

The Demon Haunted World [Today's News Poem, April 25, 2010]

“A grenade attack apparently targeting the Bangkok residence of former Thai prime minister Banharn Silpa-archa, an influential ally of the ruling coalition government, has injured 11 people.”
– ABC News, 24 minutes ago as of 8:18pm PST, April 25, 2010
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/26/2882782.htm?section=justin

A candle in the dark ignites
A fuse that flashes insight:
Alone and mortal, free to spite

Our consciences with reasoning;
With science, pain is easing—
Grenades provide the seasoning.

Kabbalah's sparks aren't just for Jews—
Its flame is just the produce
Of fertile minds that pick and choose

Which way insanity is clad.
At best a type of monad
The universe has driven mad

And cast adrift on quantum dreams,
We're chemicals that burn and scream
Against the nihilistic themes

Of nothingness perhaps. We fear that God exists
Inside our minds, that we are it—the horror twists
The intellect into a force we can't resist:
Irrational is rational. We must persist.

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Eightfold Path [Twitter Found Poem, April 25, 2010]

Eightfold Path [Twitter Found Poem, April 25, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
Re: @mdw1129 @kritianboy @nethackaltorg @DemonFlavour @sweetjulie77 @stuartgh @6stringluke @shary1972 @briankellyphoto @psychicchik @savioursons @savioursons @dirkjanh @queenwitnocrown @denise679 @PVB_mom @aliceinankh @So_9September13 @klubbkiddkl @Caturtle @ddaantjee @grimkv @Davina_c @CAKEDUP_LEX @citygirlblogs @allibah @iHeartJessbian

shut the f*ck up and listen to what I have to say.
#SometimesItsBetter to think before you speak
but usually it's so much better to fight
Buddha! was a wimp
Hate IS love.
What drives two sides to fight but the fear of their own weaknesses?

Don't love. buy hating.
Buy Iraqi oil sector growth
Buy war bonds.
Prison Guards marry & #Rape Virgins Before #Executions
Give peace a chance ?

war Virgins should just shut the f*ck up and listen
to the sound of musical cluster bombs
while they look at cheap produce
at teh Korean supermarket
Before they are raped &
executed a By Firing Squad of Stoned #Rape
Golems while praying to
Buddha!

#SometimesItsBetter to admit defeat

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Take One For the Team [News Poem, April 24, 2010]

Take One For the Team [Yesterday's News Poem, April 24, 2010]

“I have never quite gotten the Pat Tillman story out of my system. Only now am I understanding why. It has been six years and two days since he died, his head blown off amid a pile of rocks on the side of a hill in Afghanistan, murdered by guys on his own team, other U.S. soldiers. After lying about it, the military eventually called it friendly fire and treated it as a mistake... I was looking for tears, when I should have been looking for facts. Dannie Tillman did what a nation full of high-paid, overblown journalists should have done. She went after the real story while the beautiful people on TV and the nerds with notepads broadcast and wrote morality plays.”
– Bill Dwyre, The Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2010
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-0424-dwyre-20100424,0,1036733.column?track=rss

Who cares what Plato; Lao Tse said
When Rumsfeld's lies are cast in lead?
The Pentagon's a pentagram,
The Internet's the telegram—
The noble lie is just a lie.

A general must first be sly
To win his war with hearts and minds.
The bullet's just a contract signed
To seal the deal, to back the line;
To backdate steals, to strip the mine.

And if a lord becomes a pleb,
He'll tangle too in warfare webs
And feed the beast with fangs that gleam:
He signed his life for sake of team.

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LATE! I know. It's done. First Announcements

1) Google is ripping me off w/ newsfeed clicks. I gave them three chances. What's the point of converting readers to newsfeed subscribers if they're going to rip off small publishers like me? So if you want to support Toylit, please go on the site directly before you do so. Right now, Google is stealing my applause.
2) Even though I'd like to strictly be a vehicle for poetry, I'm embodied. It was a busy day. So sorry for the late news poem. I'll see if I can make it up later on today after some sleep.
3) The Toylit Q1 Report is almost finished. Then you will have a different avenue through which to express appreciation.

Okay, news poem time.

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Satan! Bring Me Dinner! [Twitter Found Poem, April 24, 2010]

Satan! Bring Me Dinner! [Twitter Found Poem, April 24, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
Re: mousewords MonsieurObscure shyposter1 NatchanFoto Julezmc55 AnAmPatriot toyathestar _heyitsgunnar_ Loreinna __bombSHELL iammsparker ezstreet JJKingpin freddiebtv Our_Voices JDior_ padarnalat n0tt000bs3ss3d LilMissToni26 MissingMimi

“i would die for you!!”
Not to be too cynical, but I think it's all spin & BS...
Oh well- I intend to make full use of it!
Armed with knowledge, all I need now is an executable plan.

#instantturnons U LOVE TO COOK...
#lovingyou has been a sweet dream & a beautiful nightmare
because you can cook only one meal time?
Like breakfast only?
#instantturnoffs
don't Lol At me
you WANT TO HEAR BOTH SIDES?
I TALK TO SATAN
i would live for SATAN
but i would die for you!!
you!! make me WANT
to die because of you!!
ALL I WANT is some goddamn BBQ!!
fuck breakfast
WHAT THE fuck is THE DEAL?
I can cook my Own fucking eggs!!
i would sell my soul for some fucking dinner !

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Cock of Love [Yesterday's News Poem, April 23, 2010]

Cock of Love [News Poem, April 23, 2010]
(Alternate Title: "Dickhead")

“Bret Michaels is in critical condition suffering from a brain hemorrhage, his publicist said Friday... Before joining "The Celebrity Apprentice," Michaels starred as the lothario on VH1's lusty reality dating series "Rock of Love" from 2007 to 2009. For three seasons, Michaels searched for the women of his dreams amid a sea of implants, tattoos and thongs. ”
– DERRIK J. LANG (AP) – 1 hour ago, as of Midnight, PST, April 24, 2010
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gOhveatVWAo2xZFgVdlb62tpc3pgD9F9829G0

Thank God it's just your brain stem—not your dick
That broke or else you'd have to get a job.
A first-aid dummy lying slack—the trick
Is focus on the ceiling crack as sobs
Of life expel from lips that tasted cunts
That ought to stone a man like me with lust—
And yet I am repelled by whorish stunts
That threaten cocks of steel with VD rust.
So keep your implants, tats, and thongs away
From me; I'll save my dick from everything
That leaks, secretes, or otherwise displays
The signs of gooey life—my piss don't sting,
I'm living well despite my raving dong—
You should have sheathed your dick and wrote some songs.

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It's gonna be late, but most of you aren't even on PST anyhow

I promise, even though I really don't owe you anything, that I will not go to sleep until I've posted April 23, 2010's news poem.

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Ah choices

Stay here and compose the news poem, or step out into seduction-city? My choice would be a little easier if Google Adsense wasn't stealing every penny from clicks to the newsfeeds. Not much easier, but tonight it might be the deciding factor. I guess it could be worse, they could be stealing clicks from the site itself--they're already ripping off a poet; it's not like they could sink much lower.

Since at least 10% of my regular readers are writers, I wanted to see if any of you were having similar problems.

Ah fuck it. I'll go out until I have grist for my next poem. That should take like five minutes in this city. Anyone know where a guy can find a fun grenade party in SF?


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He made it down the rapids, he made it down the falls-- Lulu saw enough so she retrieved him by his balls.

Ass Crack Pipe [Twitter Found Poem, April 23, 2010]

Ass Crack Pipe [Twitter Found Poem, April 23, 2010]

@d3ViousdiAmond @JonasAddictions @GoodNHealthy @your_cupid @Jamey_Giddens @antoinettemusik @shawnmcpike @craigelrod @Chicago_CP @katjolufan @katjolufan @nderrico1223 @OnthatLIONshit @CAD4466HK @LukeDonegan @mampdx

a watched ocean never boils.
But If you promise me you'll do drugs
& you mainline Raw #crackheadthoughts naturally
& smoke from her ass crack pipe then
you will regulate your blood sugar
& the ocean will boil naturally
mmmmmhmmmmm!

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Neo-Viking Funeral [News Poem, April 22, 2010]

Neo-Viking Funeral [News Poem, April 22, 2010]

“Police say a man was killed after getting hit by a train at Muni's Castro Station around 4:30 p.m. Thursday.”
– The Associated Press, 10:08pm PDT, April 22, 2010
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14942312?nclick_check=1

Some bathroom tiles surround this trench.
We passengers coagulate
Between the train and subway bench;
An ozone armpit strangulates

My dainty nose. I feel too faint
To stand and yet we chase a door.
Inspired by subway smells of taint
My tie constricts—I fall to fours.

My face erupts—I ride this creek
Of piss upon a log of shit—
And you demand I breathe? You reek!
Just take your CPR and split.

Just save yourselves—destroy my suit
Before a bum discovers it.
From drunk, he'll rise to business coot:
From begging bowl, to throats he'll slit.

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Kiss It Goodbye [Twitter Found Poem, April 22, 2010]

Kiss It Goodbye [Twitter Found Poem, April 22, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
@truesportstalk @gspaff @Valh_Dreg @abqsleep @sebpascal @MichaelEhline @Kimberlyrunner @unicornmermaid @justsweetangel @creepstreet @Filmhawkcomedy @KevinNuut @jordychristine @HollyMVG @dotson2011 @Jonloverobot @SaintMeewunk @Chris_Dammit @SamcanBOUNCE @TrixieBabez @Noireboss1 @AirportRoss @xNighthawkMiley @richfarm @IchheartMe @Thailand_ @BiebersGyrls @MsMoniqueYoung @LadyBlueICU @iAdoraBella @Erebdyluvsweets

Well, usually a large # of jets show up.
pilots tryna sober up b4 party time
at the daycare.
King Wenceslas is going to eat 4000 of those children
broken bones going to the children's museum.

DO NOT MIX children with schnapps.
throw a going-away Grenade
b4 party time:
im trying to get 1000 by tonight.
trying not to curse our children
just tryna take more shots &
improve My Call of Duty
b4 party time @CAPITOL CITY, yo.

Did trained SEALs reduce operating expense
and/or inventory in Iraq & Chicago ghetto ?
if you answered "yes" & you improve sales
come to my party in the haunted
@CAPITOL CITY, yo.
sober up b4 party time &
throw a going-away Grenade at the daycare
or hahaha kiss your job goodbye!!



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My Ecstasy [News Poem, April 21, 2010]

My Ecstasy [News Poem, April 21, 2010]

“... some green movement momentum has been lost, Earth Day supporters agree. But they welcome the debates the day brings... Critics long have accused its organizers of being anti-business or anti-growth. The Washington Post last year characterized the day a “global guilt-fest.””
– MATT CAMPBELL, The Kansas City Star, Wed, Apr. 21, 2010 10:36 PM
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/04/21/1894319/earth-day-finds-itself-in-a-political.html

“Oil fell toward $83 after soaring U.S. inventories signaled demand in the world's top energy user is lagging the recovery in the global economy.”
– Alejandro Barbajosa, Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:00am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6142V820100422

I'll pump 'til my ecstasy ruptures your mantle
And bathes me in puddles of fossilized corpses.
I'll sway in the lamplight as evening approaches
Observing the towers—all empty, yet shining.
I'll dance between raindrops and autos that pass me
And tingle when neon advises a stripper.

My ecstasy poisons the lightbulbs and hookers.
I stumble—a jackass—beneath a coal shadow.
The alley absorbs the low echo of motors.
The moonlight's too distant to rescue this drowner
Awash in an ocean of fossilized corpses—
I'll pump 'till my ecstasy ruptures our mantle.



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Happy Alderaan Day Earthlings! [Twitter Found Poem, April 21, 2010]

Happy Alderaan Day Earthlings! [Twitter Found Poem, April 21, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
Re: @DaDa509 @killerma @GinaBean221 @SayJumner @carriefan1024 @leahlimps @ginerously @vibrotronica @NickKrammes @OrganicGuru @FishieMuses @hypermarvs @Miraculousjw @AkiyamaMio @saucefonda @dees_the_guy @goaTcHoKer138 @FamousasiwannaB @KillaMessiah @BigHotChocolate @JasJazzy @tiandjuaeni @diochariot @yaratabrani @mj4justice @JamesRyanJ @geologist @Estrella_Mas @MBywalec @Sha_lee_sah @ItsBlottoBitch @jordandaley @UltraFacts @blanquirosa @amitseshan @BigJohn908 @mylesbarr

secret:
at night time i am ultra mega scared of THE EARTH...
Will @DarthVader celebrate ultra mega Earth Day
like he did Alderaan Day?
core THE EARTH!
explode THE EARTH?

you Gonna tell me I can't handle "HAPPY
EARTH DAY" knuckle head Earthlings! ?
i am scared of ghosts, small children and kittens
& i am ultra mega scared of THE EARTH
explode like Alderaan Day.

I can always depend on luck tomorrow
today i need to hide.
depend on luck today ! ?
this is A big sacrifice !

I always knew this day would come
the earths magnetic field energy
inspires more evil or insane
secret party skank police, S.W.A.T. , and the gang
wishing you HAPPY Alderaan Day Earthlings!
u was jail but I'll let the ppl k ow now



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The Only Dance in Town [Sonnet, April 20, 2010]

The Only Dance in Town [April 20, 2010]
Expedience or life! You heard me right!
Now step on up—it's time to place your bets!
Too late! I'll choose... the wheel's spun, don't fight!
My carny foot is on the wheel—I'll set
You right. You lose, now choose from one or two.
The door! Now go before I trip the third,
A booby prize for those who die in lieu
Of finer things. I'll say the magic word
And freedom, wealth: the game itself—of life—
I'll grant to you... or not. Now spin to choose—
Now choose and spin. My love, this waltz of strife
Is fixed because a loser seeks to lose
Again—the winners never play this game—
Or tend this carnival—they think it's lame.



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C-Note Beauty Cream [Twitter Found Poem, April 20, 2010]

C-Note Beauty Cream [Twitter Found Poem, April 20, 2010]
Your Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem http://goo.gl/fb/dep9A
@Dark_Side_DJ @Ca5anova2113 @Scheidt24 @HyunINC @redostoneage @NathalyBittner @Tanya_Ann @RegularOlTy @RICKNYCE @Prithvi2050 @8Ball305 @AllTimeBeth @BWESTMUSIC @JasmineMariexx @GrisDismation @syddie_boo @Ant_Allen18 @Hollywoodishere @gnarleyb @ddye @TweedleDeeeze @TheSupremeOne @dmaurio @CuteMileyRay @SanRamonPatch @Daaniie95 @jeffthefish

athletic chicks who fight back
against Tall Fat Ugly men
who are supposed to look ugly from labor...
I couldn't help but find it beautiful.

Today it seems all alone...out of the world
so depressed and monotonous...
its not a joke. people have died from
coming in contact with Tall Fat Ugly men!!
is it that men think their gods gift to women?
Or is it that women think their gods?

LEAVE us ALONE!!
HOW MANY TIMES I GOTTA SAY YA CANT FUCK WIT ME
before I WANNA FUCK WIT you?
and if I never FUCK WIT you
because I fight for my beautiful illusion
FUCK yourselves U are supposed to look ugly from labor...

U GOTTA listen to a Vincent Gallo interview.
He's making fun of Mickey Rourke's face.
Mickey's a beautiful man
Ugly from fashion show! outside ugly
his insides are beautiful illusions!!
Women lie, Men lie. Your Money don't!

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Brutal Archive [Today's News Poem, April 19, 2010]

Brutal Archive [Today's News Poem, April 19, 2010]
“Little Sofia was dead after being left alone for more than 14 hours, police said Monday.”
– Henry K. Lee, The San Francisco Chronicle, April 19, 2010
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/19/BA241D112O.DTL&tsp=1

Though lost between the network links,
A hidden memory restores.
The sleeper stirs and starts to think:
“I know I've had that dream before...

A baby died within a car—
Where babes are both conceived and tried—
She cooked by sun and slept by stars.
I wept—for was that me inside?

She might have been my daughter, niece,
Or was that me, confined by strap
And tied to iron lungs by piece,
To atrophy inside a trap:

A book upon a shelf inside
A vault beneath the surface world—
Or simply bound to metal rides
That surfed the edge as vortex swirled?

My parents—did they work to death?
Or were they pruned and put within
An archive, paying dreams for breath:
Recalling times of hope and sin

To fund an internet machine that seems
To siphon-off their sparks of nightmare; dream?"



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Peeps: #dontbeshocked When It's Desperate [Twitter Found Poem April 19, 2010]

Peeps: #dontbeshocked When It's Desperate [Twitter Found Poem April 19, 2010]

@1Princess@_Jaz @AkiyamaMio @roprice @alyssakeiko @Lauren91_x @ToniC813 @NatahliaGA @RazorRaySVP @rachfogez @Kee31 @astronomical11 @WACKYxNiCOLE @Ajwi666 @NatsKing @Kiteaton @notapuppet @hugsandkisseslu


my brain got sore,
i spent 2 hours on my brain
#dontbeshocked if I haul off
and read your ass like a @ladygaga
newspaper, or worse.

If you're outta pocket, #dontbeshocked
Gun plus gun equals one full stomach
bang bang bang!
when I do something crazy just join in :)

yes, life has a way of bringing true colors out of peeps
good people are usually the ones who get fucked over
but If u keep looking in the same trash can
#dontbeshocked if u keep finding the same trash

my brain got sore
my brain got desperate
Omg I'm starving!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ladygaga
she's a pistol, pointed at me,
my brain, hurts my brain
Is it that fun when its desperate?

crack babies a crack granny
on twitter. my brain got sore
facebook television and twitter:
these laser pointers
hurts my brain

Is it that fun when its desperate ?
how bout walking in the rain?




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Happily Ever After Epistle [News Poem, April 18, 2010]

Happily Ever After Epistle [News Poem, April 18, 2010]
“The team discovered that in the deep, rarity is common.”
– Frank Pope, The Times Online, April 19, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article7101533.ece
“Spam levels have remained resolutely stable despite recent botnet takedowns, according to a survey from Google's email filtering business... The Google spam filtering division concludes that going after botnets is no more effective than the previous tactic of targeting rogue ISPs. The takedown of rogue ISP 3FN bought a temporary respite from the spam deluge for about a month. However, after Real Host, another ISP, was taken out months later spam volumes recovered after only two days. The marked difference was due to use of improved disaster recovery approaches by cybercriminals. ”
– John Leyden, The Register, 18th April 2010 04:17 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/18/google_botnet_takedowns/

“I saw you talking with a guy,
But here's my pic. We share at least
A ninety six percent—no lie—
I know it's fast, but call a priest?”

“Before I say 'I do,' you need
To cut that hair and watch this clip—
You done? You loved it? What's the creed?
Let's marry on a rocket ship!”

The profiles never lie—at most
They get it wrong; but who's to care?
Online, the databases host
The mind, the body's just hardware.



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Twitter Nihil-Detector [Twitter Found Poem, April 18, 2010]

Twitter Nihil-Detector [Twitter Found Poem, April 18, 2010]
Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
@turbojumpers @juliannemeans @arzE @pitagora @holmpat @brtoon @ANN_Bamboo @NewBernsKevinG @JulesAGray @mj123451 @stefsho @NillzMarco @PanatC @Susie_Bougie @Mister_Goo_Goo @joe204 @iDoit2 @ScarBrozFinest @TAh_DaDON @deester31 @ebertchicago @FeedMeTTs @TheProdigalFool @FHKJ @prodigalsix

"My Money Iz My Bitch "
Dude that song is so old.
Drink some kool-aid with
my main pastor Jim Jones.

kool-aid can put a smile
on your Rigor Mortis
face. take one last sip of drink:
Mortis Versus The Earth .

#WelcomeToTwitter where
confidence is highest:
Rigor Versus gospel
Versus peeps and Versus

Ezra Pound : can jizz all
over #ronartestshair
and incidentally
Speed Whore . where half the

tweets set off lie detector
ive caught sum peeps fa real .



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Missionlocal.org Has the Heart of an Out-of-Town Chicken

Missionlocal.org Has the Heart of an Out-of-Town Chicken

I posted Manifesto of a Militant Vegan Bio-Engineer yesterday on http://missionlocal.org after first reading a link on sfgate. I did so because, 1) The article didn't ask the most interesting question. 2) They're 'mission locals' right? So in theory, they should be supportive of truly local activities, like poetry, right? Of course they aren't.

I'm so silly—what was I thinking? Website comments are supposed to be vapid and always supportive. Here is their comment policy/mission-statement: “You are free to make a comment, but do not make a dangerous comment. Do not question why we feel the need to write about people who want to rescue everything. Do not mock eating! It's what we do in the Mission! We moved to town to eat this city up and shit our hipster good-taste all over you yokels! If your verse was truly local, we would have found it!”

This is an anecdote about the power of words. If comments were so meaningless, mission-so-called-local wouldn't have put the option on their site. They wouldn't moderate the comments to permit cloying posts like this: "This is so sweet!!! Thank U and bless those people with love and tender heart to other creatures..." because such comments themselves are essentially meaningless beyond sentiment. Most webmasters censor to manage their 'brand' in the name of 'signal-noise' ratios, but there are no signal-noise ratio issues on their site worth managing. My verse had no profanity, it was relevant to the topic, it was well cited; so I conclude they belong in the coop along with the other chickens in this story. They fear the poem outdoes their story and they are correct. And this fear is a scarlet letter: 'C' and it belongs left of center, on their chests.

ps: It's interesting to note that sfgate, for all its problems (censorship and otherwise), still let me post the poem on their site. Evil Hearst is more local than missionlocals? Noooooooooooo!



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The Volcano Dreams [Bonus Poem April 17, 2010]

The Volcano Dreams [Bonus Poem April 17, 2010]
“The UK is enduring a fourth day as a virtual no-fly zone, as the travel chaos caused by volcanic ash drifting from Iceland shows no sign of ending... Meanwhile, one of the UK's biggest fresh fruit importers said business had ground to a halt because of the disruption.”
– BBC, 04:11 GMT, Sunday, 18 April 2010 05:11
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8627545.stm
“The car went off the opposite side of the road. It slashed through a utility pole, hit the top of Johnson’s 2004 Ford Freestar van parked in the driveway, and smashed into his and Coffey’s home... The accident initially knocked out the electricity for 3,400 people. Some did not have power restored until after this afternoon.”
– Charley Hannagan, The Post-Standard, April 17, 2010, 3:23PM
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/car_smashes_into_syracuse_hous.html
“A roughly seven-hour 911 outage in the Eagle area has been blamed on a contractor's error.”
– Associated Press - April 17, 2010 7:55 PM ET
http://www.kcautv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12329805
“A majority of scientists maintain that global warming is a man-made phenomenon. However, they must be prepared to acknowledge that there is another view, for which evidence can also be adduced, even if it seems to conflict with the received wisdom.”
– The Telegraph, 8:01PM BST 14 Apr 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/7591286/Climate-change-always-room-for-doubt.html

A butterfly's volcano's dream of flight
Before the birth projects the ash through night.
By wind the dreamers fly on arctic gusts:
One sips the dew, the other's pollen dusts
The airports, farmlands. Little beasts in herds
Demand the laws apply to their absurd
And delicate activities. A puff
Of superheated carbon's sure enough
To blow them off their path—while butterflies
Don't rage at storms: instead they course-revise.



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#HowToBeAnnoying ? [Bonus Twitter Found Poem April 17, 2010]

#HowToBeAnnoying ? [Bonus Twitter Found Poem April 17, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
maxseltenrich urbanstopNIQUE luvmykel1 theTRENDNGtopic dabarbiemrs_247 Rebecca1440 offsetshawty32 SheLiccdMyTatts righteousbush GaryJBusey 2khicks RantInFminor supercahoots iGotHaters318

Ask Sumbody With 1 Leg To Race
a HOT parapalegic chick
Many of our people don't give a f..k about what our ancestors
had to go through. That's f..k.d up!

#WhatIf a parapalegic entered a kick ball contest ?
All Sumbody With 1 Leg
Sumbody parapalegic
talk about is depressing shit
tweet me a barbillion fucking times when I didn't reply
the first time for a reason ! Smh people need to take hints .

#HowToBeAnnoying ?
#HowToBe #VotedMostLikely to be killed by angry twitterers?
tweet me a barbillion fucking times
about thoughts of crazy positions I could put those legs in.
about TALKIN TO ME WHILE IM TALKIN TO ME
OMG..PUNCH U IN THE FACE!LOL

Would U rather have no knees or no elbows?
Would U rather have PUNCH U IN THE FACE!LOL ?
talk about depressing shit …at your own risk
Twitter is not your diary.nobody gives a hoot
WTF u mocked, then raped today




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Holding the Bonus Poem Hostage!

It's done, but not up. You know why (applause = clicks, you daily 20+ page readers).

It's okay, I'll write a Twitter Found Poem while waiting.



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Manifesto of a Militant Vegan Bio-Engineer [Today's News Poem (Sonnet), April 17, 2010]

Manifesto of a Militant Vegan Bio-Engineer [Today's News Poem, April 17, 2010]
“Pet activists from Austin to Corpus Christi and Victoria launched recently an emotion-charged campaign. They bombarded local politicians, animal shelter leaders, the newspaper and others with calls to ban the gassing of unwanted pets.”
– GABE SEMENZA, Victoria Advocate, April 17, 2010 at 2:15 p.m.
http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2010/apr/17/gs_pet_campaign_041810_92438/?news&local-news
“Hundreds of dead animals have been found at a home in Marion County and another 400 live animals have been rescued”
– Victoria Benchimol, ABC Action News 1:32 pm April 17, 2010
http://www.abcactionnews.com/content/news/local/story/Hundreds-of-dead-animals-found-in-Marion-County/DKGb4SyxzE2NU7xzNszIug.cspx

http://missionlocal.org/2010/04/elvira-the-city-chicken

Perpetual, the holocaust consumes
The lives of zebrafish, of cats in labs!
The monster made of claw and teeth assumes
That tender tendons, hair and muscle-slabs
Enjoy the murder. Meat is murderous:
The eating—true—but flesh will kill in kind.
Since eating's cycle's just too barbarous—
Because we love all life, we'll have to find
A way to replicate the paragons
Of living with sustainability:
The trees and other plants that drink the dawn
And photosynthesize with no hostility.
To always mate (like trees): what joy we'd bring!
To worship fire, first burn-up everything.



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