newsqueak

a friend forwarded this poem to me, with no further attribution than what
you see here.  i liked it.

-d.d-

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The Meeting
by A B Spellman

hello, my name is ned &
i will be your facilitator
thank you for coming.  we
are grateful for the distance
you have traveled and the thinking
you have brought
to this meeting.  the restrooms
are to the right for men & to
the left for women

our topic today certainly
reverberates but before i say 
that let me say we will be talking
in the following manner: i will talk
some of you will talk, i will record
facilitate and manipulate your 
conclusions to my needs

which, i'm glad to say, are yours
but first, please introduce yourselves
to everyone by giving your name
affiliation, & the single, most salient
feature of your being.  thank you

please keep all your remarks
brief.  i will be very strict
about this.  we have very little time
so don't repeat anything you've 
heard or read.  & now, lets hear
from you.  but first i see
that my director is here

thank you ned.  i'm grateful
for the distance you have come
we here value your values &
experiences.  i won't take much
of your time because you dont have
much but i do want you to know
how much we value your thoughts
& the distance you have come 
thank you.  ned?  thank you

& now we're going to hear from
you.  but first i want to prioritize 
our conceptualizations during our
group face mail so we can
recontextualize them & calenderize
our interactive, proactive actualizations 
on an on-going basis, thereby repurposing
our core redundancies.  but first

i see lunch is here

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