Newspapers Are So Last Century
Newspapers Are So Last Century
By Elton Camp
You still get a paper a young man sneered
Obviously thinking that I was quite weird
He thought that getting the news online
Should, for me, be just perfectly fine
While I am in the process of transition,
I still see need to take the print edition
For one, nothing else does so fine
A messy kitchen garbage can to line
For the fireplace, a paper’s the best
It ignites more easily than the rest
I use it also to peel the potatoes atop
Not a speck on the floor will drop
Especially when I want to swat a fly
To hit him with an iPad I’d never try
And to cancel the paper I’d be a jerk
Since it’d put those folks out of work
So call me an old fogy if you will
I’ll subscribe to the newspaper still
Copyright © Elton Camp | Year Posted 2013
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