Sunday, April 14, 2019
JUMP CUT
HOW TO DO ANYTHING
print out my online instructions
but be advised they are lengthy
because "anything" covers
a lot of ground.
LAST CHANCE FOR 8 DOLLAR SHORTS
I've taken it in the shorts
too many times
maybe my luck is turning.
COMMENT FROM MARIA
wait...
lemme check this...
okay...
never mind...
Maria is a whore.
TIM, YOU HAVE A NEW
SUGGESTED FRIEND
I'm so distracted!
Gimmie an A!
Gimmie a D!
Gimmie an H!
Gimmmie a D!
COMMENT FROM ROXANNE
My reply:
So happy
you've turned out the red light
at long last.
jump cut
jump cut
Oh, look at your cute little twins
we are Siamese if you please
I'm turning Japanese
I'm turning...
I'm turning...
I'm going back in my memory
to observe
The Big Bang
once again
I remember it
as being...
loud
Where are my fukking ear plugs???
GOOGLE IS DOWN
GOOGLE IS DOWN
I'm melting!
I'm melting!
America
we are in big trouble.
Never mind...
just gimmie my damn phone!
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No worries cuz there is a pill for everything … smiles … Love, cat.
ReplyDeleteDat's how we do eet een A-meer-i-ka!-
DeleteIt's a blur these days .. we are surrounded by catastrophes.
ReplyDeleteParis is burning.
DeleteSo you like the Police and West Side Story. !I recognise all of these songs. Of course this is an admission to being positively and unfashionably ancient. I think we could have a problem. We could actually be a problem. Then again....Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz !
ReplyDeleteWe have met the enemy...and it is us!!! It would be fun to play "Name That Tune" with you.
DeleteSocial media is a bigger circus (and a bigger time suck) than google though. People don't need to know how to do anything if they distract themselves with memes and cat videos.
ReplyDeleteWe have the attention span of cat, and the reason is capitalism. Americans have been so conditioned since the dawn of television that their program is going to be interrupted every five minutes for a barrage of commercials...your concentration disappears like a cat looking this way and that...social media has exacerbated the problem exponentially...we have too many choices...too many distractions. What did you say your name was again?
DeleteBeing somewhat scrambled of brain, I will nod and toddle on...
DeleteDamn! That's really scary — the entire structure of the world, both online and offline, seems to be rotting.
ReplyDeleteI think it started in Denmark!
DeleteA fun and snarky poetic romp, and so very true.
ReplyDeleteMy brother used to work for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, helping to set up their displays. The videos were made with people's rubbish attention spans in mind. This was back in the late 1980's. It's only gotten worse.
Thanks, my friend. You're right on the mark!
DeleteThat's like running on a frozen pond with scissors in your hand. Those were all super fun and made for amazing social comment. Great work man!
ReplyDeleteThanks, my friend.
DeleteI especially love the ADHD stanza, peoples' attention spans are that of a gnat these days. Great write, Tim.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sherry. There was a simpler time when there were 3 TV networks to watch, and a phone was something you spoke into instead of gazing into like a zombie for hours on end.
DeleteYou captured the frantic noise we live with, live through. Great job!
ReplyDeleteMuch appreciated, Susie. Now, I'm late...I'm late...for a very inportant date...
DeleteYou're fast becoming one of my favourite satirists.
ReplyDeleteRosemary...thanks so much! The Snark Bird flies from this nest--lol
DeleteIt's a spam eat text world.
ReplyDeleteBring the dogs back!
DeleteWe are lost... the smart phones have made us dumb.
ReplyDeleteI have a dumb phone...that makes me smart!
DeleteI love this. It is clever and witty.
ReplyDeleteMuchas gracias!
DeleteVery clever...there is no stream like a stream of consciousness
ReplyDeleteYeah...was it Kerouac who said that?
DeleteI especially liked the "Comment from Maria".
ReplyDeleteThanks, Frank. heh heh
Delete__ Radio waves have been usable for such a long time [those passe, walk-e-talkies ;<)] ... without those ancient waves we'd not be able to use our cell-phones, those "superly modernized walk-e-talkies". Oh, here's your damn phone, Tim! Smiles! _m
ReplyDeleteHa ha! And remember the two beer cans with a long string between them that we used to talk on? Today's smart phones are just the result of constant upgrades on that old theme!
DeleteWhen I was young, I used to have /a rocket in my pocket/ and /I liked to live in Amer-ee-ka/, but I never /stuck to my own kind/. I never believed in wizards, always pulling the curtain back/. Like / a bird on a wire, or bitch on fire, in my own way /I've always been free/. /what's the use of all your damn books? If they don't tell you that what the hell do they tell you?/ Check out my Cinemagenic poetry;m I use jump cuts all the time.
ReplyDeleteI will do that Glenn. Good stuff!
DeleteThis was funny and my ADD liked the back and forth of it.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Heidi. Now CONCENTRATE!!!
DeleteThis is a unique poem and I wonder about our needs for our cellular phones and god forbid google go down. haha
ReplyDeleteYou're my target audience--lol
Deleteahh there are just lots of things happening. and geez. google down. what will happen.
ReplyDeleteIt's the end, my friend!
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