Greg Farnum
Greg can be reached at g.farnum@french-rogers.com. I liked these best
read as one long piece...they sort of talk to each other.
Sexy Rebel
What would I call Meg Ryan?
SEXY REBEL WITH THE GOLDEN GLEAM
for starters, which is easy because
it's already been provided
by the magazine cover
next to my head.
Intriguing...
you could build a whole life that way
with the pre-written thoughts
available on every side.
Have to be careful though,
my next thought is Britney Spears
Das Geschäft mit den Teeny-Stars
and I don't even how what I'm thinking,
though I do know (limiting my worldview
to beautiful women) that Liz Hurley
can't stand to spend a day without getting on the net
...and who can blame her?
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Presents? Over and done. So go
get yourself what you really
wanted. A MiniDisc player. A
digital camera. Or maybe a PDA.
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My thoughts are leading me astray
-- farther and farther.
It is very lonely here in Electronics Deals Land
and not even a picture of Britney to guide me.
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The Xerox Stories
Xerox is a registered trade mark and cannot be used in vain. Or, as the Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual (copyright 1992) puts it: Xerox A trademark for a brand of photocopy machine. Never a verb. So, Xerox is a registered trade mark and cannot be used in vain. And then there's the matter of Kleenex...
Alien Baseball
Morning dream:
a Japanese pitcher
throws the ball
again and
again;
up on his toes
he hurls himself into the pitch,
like the gear of a watch
his body falls forward
with relatively little strain
on his arm.
The surprise
(for me) is in
the stands, where
flat faced, big eyed
aliens watch.
Welcome to the day.
What Are the Words of the Day?
What are the words of the day?
Brick-and-mortar? e-tailer?
Is that them?
Shovel more Americana into the processing engine.
(International in scope) Nel caso in cui non intendesse piu' ricevere e-mail relative alle offerte di iBS Italia la preghiamo di rispondere a questo messaggio specificando NO E-MAIL nel soggetto.
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What Are the Words of the Day? #2
crickets
crickets
said
Aram
Saroyan
slender type
on paper
how far away
that world
dead
as the telegram
What are the words of the day?
Brick-and-mortar? e-tailer?
Is that them?
Honor the 80s
say the postage stamps the lady
on the radio is talking
about...the CD, The Cosby Show...
what else did she mention?
The Minivan? The 800 number?
"92.3 WMXD...because nobody does it
like the Brake Shoppe."
What would John Cage say as
the car creeps through the snow toward work?
"Dance the night away"?
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Sondage This
Dream of a piece of fabric.
What? Why?
Later, at work,
the words songer, sondage
hover just beyond the computer.
Sondage what?
Snow
falling on information architecture?
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Radio Storm
There's a storm on the radio,
snowflakes falling through the airwaves;
it's coming my way,
toward the street I'm driving down
in the pre-dawn darkness
where from the lone brightly illumined window
of the small office building
one word (cry or call) on rarely used frequencies
escapes:
pho-to-copy
its full-voiced insistence buffets the car,
then, like a bird whose visits have their own time and reason
is gone.
Song of the Open Road
Oh good
another long dull story
on NPR
about a little known
medical
condition
while traffic slowed by road construction
stops
for two people who have decided
to strew the pavement with broken glass
crumple fenders
and talk to the police.
-- They're depending on me
to help raise 785 million dollars
before 6:30.
If I enjoy these priceless programs
I'll be glad to pay.
For a contribution of just 1.5 million
I'll get this marvellous
hand thrown
coffee mug
(by respected local ceramicist
Barth Gilbreath
-- a limited edition).
ADOPT A ROAD
ADOPT A LAKE
ADOPT A SCHOOL
Now I've got three children.
If only I could get that coffee mug
(and maybe that disease...)
Day 26
car street elevator office
work computer boss
boss computer
lunch
computer boss
boss computer e-mail
office elevator street car
Jour 26
auto rue ascenseur bureau
travaille ordinateur patron
patron ordinateur
dejeuner
ordinateur patron
patron ordinateur courrier
électronique bureau ascenseur rue auto
Say It So
, so we is is it say it
is, it it say is we so
so it it, is is say we
is it say is we it so,
it is is it we, so say
we is is say it so, it
it, so is we is say it
it is is say we it so,
say we is it is so, it
is it it we say is, so
we is say it it, so is
, is we it it so say is
we is say, so is it it
is is, it it we so say
we it is it so, say is
so is we, is it say it
is it say so it, we is
Napkin Poem
This is my napkin poem
writ at the coffee shop
where the Arab girl at the next table
says "all computers, all computers
in there, no people doing it"
before she lapses back into Arabic
where I cannot follow,
and a girl at the table past that
says, oddly enough, "Oscoda"
(a lakeshore town in Northern Michigan)
and nothing else about Oscoda
can be discerned in the ambient buzz
except I guess computers are doing it there too
...no people?
Greg Farnum