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not everything which happens is in the newspaper By: Matthew Patterson on 3/18/2005; 10:19 PM The world ended not long ago. Didn't you hear? It's not a surprise -- a few column inches in a local rag, salient details, time and place, phone numbers for relief groups "Help the survivors of this awful catastrophe!" Make a mental note and cry at the horror. Memory turns to pulp along with excess newsprint an hour, a day, a week later, cushions delicate places with the crumpled remnants of anguish, yellowed fragments proof that all existence once grieved.
RE: not everything which happens is in the newspaper By: Mark Morgan on 3/19/2005; 1:41 AM Ugh. Sounds like your day really sucked, my friend.
RE: not everything which happens is in the newspaper By: Matthew Patterson on 3/19/2005; 3:13 AM It actually did, though today wasn't what I was referring to. I kinda want to see what people make of it before I say anything about what I actually *did* mean by it.
RE: not everything which happens is in the newspaper By: Mark Morgan on 3/19/2005; 8:12 AM Interesting. Also, when you published it, you left the spaces in. Just FYI.
RE: not everything which happens is in the newspaper By: Matthew Patterson on 3/19/2005; 1:45 PM Oops. One should not, therefore, publish poetry in a hurry before running off to a giant party.
RE: not everything which happens is in the newspaper By: Richard Davidson on 3/19/2005; 2:57 PM I never worry about what a poet is trying to say. I only take the meaning I take, and leave it at that. I took this poem to be about the fact that Humanity has ended, but no one is smart enough to realize it. A blistering indictment of the lazy, dollar-motivated media; the fact that we are all dead. Beautiful!
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