[Michael Creagan]

On First Looking Into The Internet And Finding Paparazzi Photographs Of Celebrities Behaving Badly


Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific--and all his men
Looked at each other with a wild surmise--
Silent, upon a peak, in Darien.

--Keats


Think far ahead with me, stifle the jeers,
and sympathize with some young kid in tears,
stoned on weed and far too many beers,
who finds one day, confirming his worst fears,
what's been displayed on the Internet for years,
the genitals of his mother, Britney Spears.


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Michael Creagan



[This message has been edited by Michael Creagan (edited December 25, 2006).]

[Roger Slater]

THE WORST OF ALL

Seinfeld's Kramer said, "My bad,"
and had the good sense to act sad

when his tirade hit the news.
And Gibson, when he trashed the Jews,

knew enough at least to claim
he felt a modicum of shame.

But nothing, nothing can embarrass
Lindsey Lohan, Britney or Paris.



[This message has been edited by Roger Slater (edited December 16, 2006).]