Here's one I like better than the "hippie wierdos" one I posted which, though sincerely written just feels kind of gushy somehow. Like if you stuck your finger in it it would feel like ......never mind. A SHADOW OF A DOUBT ----------------------------------- The world must have been beautiful once before the disease infested everything that could be plastered. Some day we'll all have redundancy surplus catheters to pipe the advertizing directly to the graymatter and even then, every rock or tree will be an add for a hair product or some corn remover so we can all know without a shadow of a doubt Blah blah blah go the blah-blahs in their three face suits and repeat the words--- whatever words the current word-guru has divined to be the most effective to distribute stupidity to the public---as many times as posible without making it obvious, and blahblah as much blahblah as possible about any given issue so that it sounds to a short attention span like they're actually saying something about something. Something very intelligent...and important.... so that we can all know without a shadow of a doubt Bright tallents and brilliant minds go to waste in a place where no one cares and no one dares to raise thier hand. Shining leopards pace in the frowning face of the one who understands why we all know without a shadow of a doubt. We're all such trusting lambs.
i have never encountered a poem with so many blahblah's...so congrats, you were a first for me... i suggest moving to eastern Canada...last time i was there they werent allowed to put up billboards on sides of highways, nothing to interfere with the scenery...'course that was a few years ago......
Billboards are just a small part of it though. I get on a bus, and the whole bus is a bank add. It must have been nice when busses were still just busses, buildings were still just buildings shopping carts just shopping carts...but now just about everything you see, hear, use, wear, eat or drink has to double as an add for some crap. I really believe that cities could be beautiful places, but only if people decide to take back all the aesthetic quality of life that advertising has taken away over the decades.....so slowly that no one really noticed.
