Newspoem.

c can cause cancer

(Newspoem 2 June 2001 )

Epidemiological scientific research confirms
curious doctors' uncertain suspicions
medical researchers announce conclusions:
C can cause cancer

American society's increasingly C-saturated
commercial discourse causes excessive
C accumulation, inciting toxic
uncontrollable microscopic cellular reproduction

scientists' conclusions recommend congress
consider creating alphabetic caps
reducing American C consumption
encouraging nontoxic typographic sources

can America's public reduce
C dependence? cutting back
crime, police, racism, hypocrisy
cars, illiteracy, corruption, capitalism?

(which carcinogenic character's innocent
connotations include: chocolate chip
cookies, cottage cheese, Captain
Crunch, childhood, genetic code)

can congress rescind alphabetic
convention, reduce C consumption?
CEOs, incensed conservative Republican
social critics cry "censorship!"

 

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