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Con Chapman

Con Chapman
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Con Chapman is the author of two novels, most recently CannaCorn (Joshua Tree) and The Year of the Gerbil, a history of the '78 Yankees-Red Sox pennant race. He is the author of over 25 plays, which have been performed in New York, Boston and elsewhere. His articles have appeared in The Boston Herald, The Boston Globe and national magazines. On-line, his humor is available at AmazonShorts. He was a finalist in the 2009 Robert Benchley Humor Competition and the Somerville News Poetry Competition, and if you think he isn't bitter about not winning, you don't know the guy very well.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2009 1:22PM

Three Lost Cantos From Dante's Inferno

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XXXV:  Cell-Phone Users

 

The users of cell-phones in quiet places

Have merited scorn from all classes and races.

They talk to their pals with cocky assurance

While you bury your head in your book with endurance.

The gestures they make are of course unavailing

It looks like unseen taxis that they are hailing.

Their punishment, as each millennium passes,

Is to be drowned out forever by the braying of asses.

 

 

XXXVI:  "Reply-to-All"-ers

 

We came to the furthest reach of hell-

A place that email users know well.

The woman or man whose unmitigated gall

Causes him or her to hit "Reply all".

I don't mean to work myself into a snith

But they ought to know better-it clogs server bandwidth.

For these folks a punishment fit for their crimes-

They're surrounded and hounded by fast-talking mimes.

 

 

XXXVII:  Credit Card Coffee Buyers

 

The lousy cup is called a "tall"--

the cost of it is rather small.

Those who chose to charge the price

In this ring are treated not-so-nice.

If plastic was the tender you used to pay

While the time of those in line wasted away

You will for eternity be burnt like toast

With free trade coffee, decaf dark roast.

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Clever, fun and current.
This should definitely land you in the lowest level of purgatory
Is that Tammy Faye in the top picture? I think Tammy will be visiting the Inferno for a lot more than talking loud on her cell phone. Rated.
I believe it is the mascara'd one, but as always, I just lifted it from Google images.