"114
year old Augusta Holtz of St. Louis,
Missouri, today revealed her secret for longevity:
Keep having birthdays!"
--AP Wire Service
After one Hainan Island boy
nearly died of asphyxiation
with a live fish
stuck in his throat,
the Chinese Hainan Daily cautioned:
"With the summer holidays
now here,
teachers
and
parents
must educate children
not to try to catch
fish with their mouths."
*
Asked: "What
do you think about
when you are
in the air?"
Christopher Adams, thirty,
the "human rocket"
who gets shot out of a cannon
in every Ringling Bros.
and Barnum & Bailey Circus show
replied:
"I think about
getting to the net--
reaching
the net."
--Mark Pawlak
(from Special Handling: Newspaper Poems New and Selected
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1993)
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