Elton Camp Poet Rhyme

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

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