[New-Poetry] Re: Thank you, Walt Whitman

[Crisman Cooley]

Thanks David.  This is the funniest pome I've read in a long time.   
Besides Hal's of course.

> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:20:26 -0600
> From: David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu>
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Thank you, Walt Whitman
>
> Thank You
>
> My body temperature was below normal; it was like 97.5--
> It was like I was turning into a radio station,
> Which was fine, because my radio had stopped working--
> The batteries had died, beautifully, with dignity, in their sleep.
>
> The morning paper seemed beyond me, but it was below me.
> A piece of gunk fell out of my eye
> And landed on an Associated Press photograph.
> Russian business leaders with faces like water balloons--
> Then a story about children hiding in a leaf pile who were hit by a  
> van.
>
> Then the photograph of the demonstrator outside the Federal building--
> It was impossible to tell if he was shouting or yawning.
>
> Thank you, Walt Whitman, for doing whatever it was you did
> So that we don't have to write like they did before you came along.
>
>
> --Matt Cook.  Eavesdrop Soup.  Manic D Press, 2005.
>