The Way Things Stand Now
/The way things stand now,
in a race between analog and digital –
don’t bet.
Over in another City,
a guy told me that sometimes
when he’s about to have real exciting,
dangerous thoughts, he’ll say to himself,
"You know, I shouldn’t be tellingyou this…”
One King confided to me
that he’d have had these secret “brain smiles”
forbidden, if he knew they existed.
From the several religions available
on this certain planet, one was selected
for each individual on the basis of a
childhood allergy test.
Perhaps these News Items are having some salutary effect on readers, as one man writes to say that he s now able to look upon his own “undesirable thoughts,” as simply, “commercial interruptions to his normal programming.”
J.