What's It All For

By MacDiva on June 16, 2007 8:34 AM |

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by dZihan & Kamien

During my usual morning browse of stuff on the Web, I came across a cute, though job-specific (as opposed to widely relatable) poem.

AFAIK, it hasn't been floating around in the ether, so I thought I'd give it a little nudge.


The Copy Editor's Lament By George Martin

I was sitting on the copydesk
just watching o'er the scene
when the dealer sent a juicy
story over to my screen.
It had power, sex and politics and violence - it was great;
and the headline on the dummy said:
- 6 column 48.

So I rearranged the commas
and I tidied up the lede
and I patched up all the typos
and gave it one more read.
I typed in all the coding
and prepared to write the hed
when a voice came from the news desk,
and this is what it said:

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