HatsPeople don't really wear hats quite so much anymore. This is fine as we have plenty of other accessories to worry about. Feel free to replace "hats" with "phones" if you must.
Hats, where do you belong?
what is under you?
On the rim of a skyscraper’s forehead
I looked down and saw: hats: fifty thousand hats:
Swarming with a noise of bees and sheep, cattle and waterfalls,
Stopping with a silence of sea grass, a silence of prairie corn.
Hats: tell me your high hopes.
Saturday, January 11, 2014
lifting a fat broth
Was reading Carl Sandburg's Smoke and Steel again this morning. "Soup" will be my favorite forever, but the following is a close second.
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Phones
ReplyDeleteOh, those self-wronging individuals, which
Broke the illiterate dawn with their misdirected calls, their
Confused sputtering towards objects unseen.
I felt their mingled, unanswered chatter rise and
Fill the urban channels with their spastic might.
I watched each solitary ear distend and hear
Around the world, each pair of lips protract across
time zones and beyond, and I arrived at a similar conclusion,
from a great distance.
I have used
Deletethe data
that was on
the data plan
and which
you were probably
saving
for video
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Also that one is very good and maybe kind of ominous?
DeleteWell it IS about the breakdown of society through the disintegration of unified communication into discrete modes, and even if we're aware of the trend we can't help but participate in it. Nice catch!
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