Newspoem
19 February 2001
Sam Markewich
hound

No More

No more Newspoetry.

No, no more.

Had enough.

No more.

No more

bicycle thievery,

particular ownership

is it productively membered

androgyny

shipped through customs undetected and unreported?

No more democrats and no more republicans.

Elections suck!

No more semi-quivering fenced in-out bogs.

Revolving doors know more: more than the wind they hurl out there is the

wind they force in.

No more experts running my life, or yours, or yours, or yours, or

theirs, or ours. No powers, no days of yore, nothing

never-ending-trampled swept backwards.

Paint over billboards with poison ivy.

Brain hemispheres, corporations about to merge, scratch heads together,

go up in flames. Unfathomable, isn't it, what would happen if I smashed

every single lightbulb on that Coke billboard on Bryant Street?

NPR?

Fire them all

In two rooms.

Tell half their fired, and the other half, tell them their also fired.

They should've never passed over what that former CEO said about the

time they put the employees in two rooms, one for those about to be

fired, the other for the rest.

Spraypaint "Truth" across the brows of pedestrians who don't know why

the chicken crossed the road. Then, ask the chicken to carefully and

painstakingly explain it thusly:

"Because my father did

. . . and his father before him

. . . and

Outlaw all double yellow lines.

Outlaw every single thing that impinges on ones will to cop a u-ee.

Destroy geometric continuity:

progress is something we can't live with.

No, no more discussions.

About school testing;

About internet news .coms

About what the president and his wife did for things valentinian;

About the president;

About the military;

About how few Isrealies are killed each day with a voice that reads many;

About cute things;

About cops and genes;

About products, gross, national, or otherwise;

About an economic boom;

About any pomp and any single circumstance;

About sports and nice weather we're having today on elevators in

downtown Manhattan;

About the Nasdaq -- About all of these be it that we masses rise up a

Carolin', "The subject is closed!"

No more discourse.

There truly is nothing left to say.

All radical thought is distilled:

it is the only relevant science, and it has nothing left to say.

Do something for social change.

Until Greenspan does a spit take and the mint goes up in flames

Until bipartisanship burns Reagan in effigy

Until a person can walk down the street without the fear of the news

stinging hotter than the fear of history,

There will be Joe Futrelle, editor-in-chief,

standing in a heep of trash,

a single tear running down his cheek,

possessed by Nixon's purgatoried soul

and forced to have no other choice but to write about it.

Newspoetry, the Whole Story