Monday, February 09, 2026
Newspaper poems
You guys sure showed up this week!
Here is something I did not see coming: not one but two tributes to the Richmond Dispatch! First, this one from Craig:
Love newspapers: a
Foundational part of my
Life since my childhood.
Small town papers like
the Townsman, Mid-York Weekly,
Center Daily Times.
And the Boston Globe,
the New York and Seattle Times,
and Richmond Dispatch!
Foundational part of my
Life since my childhood.
Small town papers like
the Townsman, Mid-York Weekly,
Center Daily Times.
And the Boston Globe,
the New York and Seattle Times,
and Richmond Dispatch!
Then also from Des:
Richmond Times Dispatch
helped us follow Aloka,
the monks to DC.
helped us follow Aloka,
the monks to DC.
IPLawGuy cares about this, and put in poems once:
I "read" the "funnies"
Before I knew how to read
intro to sports, news.
Before I knew how to read
intro to sports, news.
Twice:
The Fairfax Journal
The Evening Star, The Post
Delivered them all.
The Evening Star, The Post
Delivered them all.
Three times:
Bond Villian Jeff Bezos
Sucking up to Trump to get
Government contracts.
Sucking up to Trump to get
Government contracts.
And one more time (though a little off-theme):
MAGA hates "Deep State."
It's Gov'ment workers, but
Fed'ral contractors.
It's Gov'ment workers, but
Fed'ral contractors.
And an anonymous entry:
Comes a time we’ll read
Our paper in the sand—truth
Hastily erase .
Our paper in the sand—truth
Hastily erase .
And finally Christine had a strong entry:
Turn first to comics
Then horoscopes and sport scores
Finally the news.
Then horoscopes and sport scores
Finally the news.
