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Unread 03-27-2010, 11:29 AM
Esther Murer Esther Murer is offline
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This morning's Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the state of New Jersey may rename highway rest stops after corporations instead of prominent New Jerseyans. Among the casualties would be Walt Whitman and Joyce Kilmer. Other New Jersey poets include WCW and Allen Ginsburg. For a fuller list, go here:
http://www.poets.org/state.php/varState/NJ

I'm not sure I'm clever enough for this, but how would a corporation rewrite a poem by (or in the style of) WW, WCW, etc.? Anybody want to try?

Of course this may presage a larger trend, so you don't have to restrict yourselves to New Jersey.

Esther
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