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in preparing for a tv appearance
Contributed by
JohnYamrus
on
Saturday, 26th January 2008 @ 08:42:09 AM in AEST
Topic:
oops
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in preparing for a tv appearance
to promote my new book,
i asked the host
what were my restrictions
regarding language
or content…
“oh, we’re cable…
don’t worry about it.
just read
whatever you want.”
just to play it safe
i e-mailed him a file
containing everything
i thought i might want to read.
the next day
he wrote back
saying everything’s fine,
but please don’t read the poem
“some dumb *****”.
either don’t read it
or please change the line.
now the poem’s about this guy
(a “dumb *****”)
who plots a public suicide
to make a political statement.
but, he’s a rookie at public suicide
and he blows it.
he forgets to inform the media
and ends up
setting himself on fire
with no one watching.
i thought it was
a pretty funny poem…
but it was either too political for him
or he didn’t like the word,
and he asked me not to read it.
so, here i sit,
going through my stack of poems,
trying to come up with
22 minutes worth of magic.
finally,
bored with it all,
i put the stack away and go upstairs.
i walk into the kitchen
and Kathy asks:
”well, how’d it go?
what are you going to read?”
i crack open a beer,
look at her and say:
“aw, heck,
i don’t know.
just
some dumb *****.”
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JohnYamrus
... [
2008-01-26 08:42:09] (Date/Time posted on
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