And now, the Jawbone 2 Bluetooth Headset presents selected excerpts from the Bluetooth Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry.

The Blue Toothheadset
Carlos William Carlos

so much depends
upon

a blue toothhead
set

made from smooth
plastic

inside your non-race-specific
ear.

Jawing Bone
Frosty Snow

Something there is that doesn’t love a Bluetooth headset,
That sends one’s hands towards the chattering throat
To shake the voice out of the wearer in the sun
And shove that headset into the smallest gap one can find.
While mending the gaps in my chainlink fence
I heard my neighbor’s voice from the field beyond
And thinking he spoke to me, turned in humble greeting;
But the jerk was just chattering on his headset
About whatever stupid crap matters to stupid crapheads
To a fellow tool somewhere far off, unseen, but no doubt
Also getting on everybody’s nerves around him.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his stupid,
Empty, ugly, loud, obnoxious, self-centered, smug,
Pompous, asinine, ignorant, childish, annoying head:
“Bluetooth users make lousy neighbors.”

Call
Allen Chinbeard

I thought I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness
Chattering ancient negro angelsong in starving naked tenements
Through broken hollow-eyes of smoke and crazy, howling pubic turpentine jazz
But they were just talking on their Jawbone 2 Bluetooth headsets.
Moloch’s loudspeaker gramophone ear-horn of machine tomb blood!
Why can’t they do something more worthwhile, like
Heroin?

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