Adrian Henri - The New `Our Times' (for Mix Fénéon)

1 <br /> <br />At 3 p.m. yesterday, a Mr Adolphus Edwards, a Jamaican immigrant, was pecked to death by a large Bronze Eagle in Upper Parliament St. A U.S. State Dept. spokesman said later, `We have no comment to make as of this time.' <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />Police­Constable George Williams, who was partially blinded by a 15 lb. jelly baby thrown at a passing pop singer, is to be retired on half­pension. <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />Bearded Liverpool couple put out of misery in night by drip oil heater, court told. <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />A certain Mrs Elspeth Clout, of Huyton, was killed by an unidentified falling object. It was thought to be a particularly hard stool evacuated from the toilet of a passing aeroplane. <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />2 chip­shop proprietors were today accused of selling human ears fried in batter. One of them said `We believe there is room for innovation in the trade: <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br />Fatality in Kardomah bomb outrage: Waitress buried Alive under two thousand Danish pastries. <br />*(a free 1960s Liverpool version of Fénéon's great `Our Times'.) <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br />At the inquest on Paul McCartney, aged 21, described as a popular singer and guitarist, P.C. Smith said, in evidence, that he saw one of the accused, Miss Jones, standing waving bloodstained hands shouting `I got a bit of his liver.'<br /><br />Adrian Henri<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-new-our-times-for-mix-f-n-on/