Tuesday, July 17

THE WAR ON ERROR


does the televizor still work? I was wondering
So I turned it on

and flipped through the ten channels we have here
Five in Armenian, three in Russian, the cnn, the euronews

on the cnn, there was a prozidan speaking
The first word I caught was “Errorism”

“. . .in our fight against the Errorists,” the prozidan said
“We got to remain united against the Error. . .” he continued

“. . .there is hope for the Middle-Feast.” the prozidan explained
“We can achieve a two-slate zolution. . .” he reminded us

“what kind of hope is that which is based on excluzion?” I thought
But who is really listening to him anyway?

who in the prozidan’s own country
Would bother to listen to the same old lines?

who in the Middle-Feast
Would bother to listen to the same old lies?

who from the corporate bosses/clients’ cabal
Would bother to listen to their own tired-looking puppet?

the prozidan
Didn’t
even seem to be listening to himself

“maybe the speech writers were watching.” I thought
It’s their job

“this sentence was too long for him.” Writer A observes
“This word was too long for him.” Writer B observes

“maybe they could impeach him,” Writer A says
“So we could write a normal speech again.”

“don’t count on it,” Writer B says
“They don’t impeach a prozidan when there is a war.”

which is just one of the reasons why
The so-called War On Error is not about to end

“our fight” the prozidan calls it
Ha! ha! ha!

I don
t know what word is more grotesque
“Our” or “fight” ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

::: ::: :::

[Picture: The grotesque flower whispered something to me by reading_is_dangerous] (July 15, 2007, by the lake)

1 comment:

  1. J'aime beaucoup quand tu détournes les mots. Ça me rappelle une pochette de CD que j'ai fait avec un affiche photographiée à New York.

    L'originale: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mithraphoto/156146767/in/set-72157594149402989/

    La pochette: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mithraphoto/37696111/in/set-828768/

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