Newspoem 2 June 2001: C Can Cause Cancer
- William Gillespie
- William Gillespie - Newspoet
Epidemiological scientific research confirms curious doctors’ uncertain suspicions; medical researchers announce conclusions: C can cause cancer
American society’s increasingly C-saturated commercial discourse causes excessive
C accumulation, inciting toxic
uncontrollable microscopic cellular reproduction
Scientists’ conclusions recommend congress consider creating alphabetic caps
reducing American C consumption
encouraging nontoxic typographic sources
Can America’s public reduce C dependence? cutting back
crime, police, racism, hypocrisy
cars, illiteracy, corruption, capitalism?
(Which carcinogenic character’s innocent connotations include: chocolate chip cookies, cottage cheese, Captain
Crunch, childhood, genetic code)
Can Congress rescind alphabetic convention, reduce C consumption?
CEOs, incensed conservative Republican social critics cry “censorship!”
2001