This is the Read-Me document that accompanies the fourteenth issue of Electric Broadsheet from Poetry InkProductions. Please note that you will need the TrueType™ fonts Geneva, Helvetica & Palatino installed in yoursystem in order to view these documents correctly.Electric Broadsheet is distributed as a series of SimpleText™ documents. These are best read with AppleComputer’s sleek little bare-bones word processor SimpleText™. It comes free with every computer which runs theMacOS™, so you should have a copy (or two or three) lurking around your hard drive.We plan more subtle changes in the issues to come; we appreciate your patience while we tweak our layouts.About Electric BroadsheetElectric Broadsheet is a “whenever we feel like it” publication, published on an unpredictable eclectic schedule. Weaim to publish doodlings, scraps, & snippets of semi-literate writing that tickle the funny bone through the intelligentuse of the written word. At best, we are creatively thought-provoking; at worst, we are just another screaming voiceshooting electrons at the world. At any rate, we’re having fun just scribbling away.Electric Broadsheet is distributed by Poetry Ink Productions, publishers of Poetry Ink electronic literarymagazine (now defunct) and distributors of electronic versions of texts published by catacomb pussy press.About Poetry Ink ProductionsPoetry Ink Productions was founded by Matthew W. Schmeer in May of 1995 to publish Poetry Ink, a freelydistrubuted award-winning electronic literary magazine for the Macintosh computing platform. Poetry Ink contained alively mix of poetry, short fiction, essays, commentary, reviews and instructional techniques that was just too goodto last.After Poetry Ink ran its course, Poetry Ink Productions turned its attention to producing HyperCard™ writingtoys and publishing electronic versions of texts published by catacomb pussy press. In early 1997, Poetry InkProductions began publishing Electric Broadsheet, an ezine which focuses on one work by one author in eachissue. Please see the accompanying document “Other Publications” for a complete list of our published editions.While our focus is to publish poetry, prose, and short fiction, we are always open to lending a hand on other projectsinvolved with the art of the written word. If you are interested in submitting works for possible publication as aninstallment of Electric Broadsheet, please email us for our submission guidelines.Contact InformationPoetry Ink Productions can be reached via email at:<[email protected]>and via snail mail at:Poetry Ink ProductionsAttn: Matthew W. Schmeer6711-A Mitchell AvenueSt. Louis, MO 63139Please contact Poetry Ink Productions for all re-distribution permissions.TrueType, SimpleText, MacOS, Macintosh and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. HyperCard is a trademark ofClaris Corp.(This document has an embedded sound resource! If viewing with SimpleText , select “Play” from the “Sound” menu.)The files presented herein ©1997 Electric Broadsheet and Poetry Ink Productions“Nonsensical Sonnet For An Electronic Age” ©1997 Matthew W. SchmeerPlease contact Poetry Ink Productions for all re-distribution permissions.Poetry Ink ProductionsAttn: Matthew W. Schmeer6711-A Mitchell AvenueSt. Louis, MO 63139email: <[email protected]>Electric Broadsheet is published on a sporadic eclectic schedule. 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All other rights to works appearing in Electric Broadsheet written by authors other than Matthew W.Schmeer revert to said authors upon publication.While our focus is to publish poetry, prose, and short fiction, we are always open to lending a hand on other projectsinvolved with the art of the written word. If you are interested in submitting works for possible publication as aninstallment of Electric Broadsheet, please email us for our submission guidelines.Electric Broadsheet is produced on an Apple Macintosh LC II running MacOS™ 7.5.5. We use Global VillageTeleport Gold II Fax/Modems. Electric Broadsheet is primarily produced using Apple Computer’s free wordprocessor SimpleText 1.4 enhanced with Alessandro Levi Montalcini’s shareware SimpleText Color Menu 3.1and James W. Walker’s freeware Text Editor Patches 1.7. Also used in the production of Electric Broadsheetare Robert Gotshall’s & Rick Zaccone’s freeware spellchecker Excalibur 2.5, Apple Computer’s free resource editorResEdit 2.1.3, Claris Corporation’s freeware Claris Em@iler 1.1.v3, and BareBones Software’s freewareBBEdit Lite 4.1. This package was then compressed using Aladdin System’s StuffIt Deluxe 4.0.2. We encourageothers to support these fine hardware manufacturers and software programmers. So pay your shareware fees!Most of the file icon resources came from various forgotten sources. If you designed one of icons we use and object tous using it, please contact us. We will work with you to rectify the situation.Trademarks and servicemarks mentioned in this magazine are registered trademarks and servicemarks of theirrespective owners, regardless of whether or not they are so denoted.Nonsensical Sonnet For An Electronic AgeMatthew W. 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