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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 © | Year Posted 2013




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