This one is NOT from the weekly newspaper’s call-in line. This one came straight to me, already formatted as poetry, as a gift from a spommenter. A spomment, in case you don’t know, is what I call a spam comment. Sometimes I post them on…
Tag: found poem
Sometimes, the folks who use our weekly newspaper’s call-in service lose me along the way. This lament, for instance. I understand what he or she is saying, but the thesis statement seems unconnected to the exposition, if I may be permitted to go all lit-jock…
I’d like to point out again that I don’t make these things up. Our town’s weekly newspaper has a call-in line called The Live Wire, where people can call and leave anonymous comments on anything that’s on their mind. Alvin from Palmyra always identifies himself,…