April 1st, CENTO: "Black, White, and Bled All Over"

It's like a toilet bowl that swirls but
doesn't flush. It was trying to crawl
up the side of his terrarium and
get out. This is epic, man. We were

lucky. We could always use more
volunteers. What macular degeneration
took away, surgery put back. It makes
cleanup easier and makes life better.

Everyone makes mistakes. That's
paying off for our program. Then
I read in the newspaper and all I
could do was break down and cry.

Source: The Daily Item.

Citations for each line appear below sequentially in correlation with each line as it appears in the poem above.

"Ocean Garbage Frustrates Searchers," Nick Perry of the Associated Press, ran in the The Daily Item, Tuesday, 4/1/14

"Firefighter Rescues Python," uncredited short drawn from "news service reports," ran in the The Daily Item, Tuesday, 4/1/14

"Applicants Sign Up Amid Glitches," Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of the Associated Press, ran in the The Daily Item, Tuesday, 4/1/14

"Volunteers Will Hit the Roads," Francis Scarcella of the Daily Item, ran in the The Daily Item, Tuesday, 4/1/14

"Surgery Helps - If You Qualify," Anika Reed of the McClatchy-Tribune, ran in the The Daily Item, Tuesday, 4/1/14

"A Kitchen Gets Put To Tough Test," Lydia Mulvany of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, ran in the The Daily Item, Tuesday, 4/1/14

"Tell Me About It: A Toxic Need to be Right," Carolyn Hax of the Washington Post, ran in the The Daily Item, Tuesday, 4/1/14

"Sister: Miranda is a Liar," Francis Scarcella of the Daily Item, ran in the The Daily Item, Tuesday, 4/1/14