(June 27, 2023)
still call it "dial"
when really it's more a touch
or a voice command
"unbroken" hair, "fixed" faces
and dogs and cats "fixed" as well*
*(So wonderfully precise at times and even more gloriously obscure at others, English remains champion of all the world's polyglotisms - and to continue beating this dead horse's metaphors and -fives, when in just the span of my learning to read and somehow speak some words go 180 degrees out-of-phase with hardly a whimper much less a struggle or even brouhaha. I've yet to give up "gay" to its new appellationary rainbow - and even that color-shot so-now status-symboly-and-all, I could but won't scream: because that will bring on a flood of ice-cream, no? Instead of killing all the lawyers first as per Old Man Will, why not just set all the copywriters and advertising execs in quick-set concrete overshoes: how much chin-height over or under the tidal flow still open for debate and perhaps bribes just so long as all 93 minutes legally allotted to commercial time each hour of broad-, net-, or even wide-cast (as opposed to fly-cast which also reels in fish) set in stone somewhere just east of Madison Avenue. Remember, your paycheck really is the government's money: they just allow you to use some of it on a temporary bases - just to keep the so-called economy looking prosperous (just for those whom the media determine "count"). It's all about the bubblegum cards, donchakno?)
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