SIX PIECES OF SILVER

 

SIX PIECES OF SILVER

 

MAY 27, 2011. There is a fear of language. The major symptom is paranoia—uh-oh, veering away from traditional constructions will leave everyone in chaos.

 

This is what’s wrong with conservatives. They assume ALL deviation is a sign of an apocalypse, or something, a symptom of total degeneration of the species.

 

A little planned ambiguity gets you a special seat in a ring of Hell.

 

And a string of metaphors? Flame throwers for eternity.

 

Two sentences that don’t quite add up is a conspiracy.

 

(Liberals have their own brand of insanity that, these days, mainly revolves around trying to ban words and phrases and turn them into crimes.)

 

Well, here’s news. If you KNOW the language and then bend it, so what?

 

Applesauce, applesauce,” said the Queen, “what is applesauce? Whoever started this thing must hang!”

–rumored (by me) to have been omitted from Alice Through the Looking Glass

 

 

Oh for chrisakes don’t be scared of words, Charlie said. You’re running down the street after a coupla definitions dropped down a sewer like you lost an ARM. Relax. You might hit the jackpot. You might get a feeling something NEW happened…

 

 

Three pictures in a row on Thursday

ARE A HYPNOTIC LUNCH

then crowds walk through a movie theater

and break the spell

we weren’t in a trance after all

we were thinking about billiard balls on a table that never collide

 

 

average distillation common denominator

you hit him with a few words he doesn’t

put together right away

and he goes into the television for the answer

 

 

Here is a collage

You nobly call your life

the teacher wants you to deconstruct it

and put the pieces in a drawer

INSTEAD YOU CLIMB ON TO THE CEILING

AND WALK UPSIDE DOWN

blow through the wrong end of the trumpet for a while and see what happens

 

 

here’s a perfect crystal

so what

we learned nothing

 

JON RAPPOPORT

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjronsulting@gmail.com