He stood up from the computer  tossed himself a couple time to the left  then reached 

down for his coffee cup   he recognized the time as 11:22

immediately inside his skull he flipped its seconds to :33

11:22:33

and then the next second :34

11:22:34

and thats where it ended

11:22:35 was out of synch

11:22:32 might have been interesting

                                                            though he wasnt

otherwise he would have imagined the seconds as :32

wouldnt he

though he didnt

did he

NO  he didnt

Ah  he succeeded in his first affirmation of the day

                                                                                      

                                                                                          telling himself NO

NO was good to hear   and better to hear it in ones own voice as a shining preparation

for the advent of A Day Out in the World

where  perpetually  it seemed he asked questions other people found rude or unorthodox

--   Do you really just ask me that

--   Are you really asking me if I just asked you that

--   Thats so rude

--   Rude  Because it occurred to me or because I asked it

--   Because  . . . . both

--   Ah both  You want it both ways

So things that occur to you you prefer not to ask

You prefer not to affirm  or confirm

Or is it that you worry youll be contradicted

That you had missed it significantly

Or utterly

--   NO (got it!  --  the first for the day not out of his mouth)

I simply prefer not to be rude

--   Rude

Curious

I believe rude is subjective  incremental

In a word it suggests the thickness of ones skin  how easily another can get under it

What do you think

--   Were not having this conversation

--   But . .. 

--   NO (and again!)

they walked off

some even trotted off as if fearing he wasnt going to take NO for an answer

which he always did

he wasnt that rude

evidently

and so he salted his mornings denying himself   NO   prepping himself for the grueling

outer World  a World whose armaments  --  by his estimation  --  were far more twisted

and perverse than his simple straightforward questions

questions  which often he asked  intended as a form of détente 

                                                   

for Outside he had no intentions mollifying people who engaged him 

he parried their thrusts

and as they somehow assumed it their right

he assumed his

he pictured their interactions in his mind as mirrorplay  quicksilver reflections

back-an-forths  ad nauseam   seamy   his mind altering their shadows

albeit ever so slight  as to favor a carnival funhouse mirror

a tad disorienting 

unstable footing

NO  he really shouldnt have wonder at all of the NOs he got

they were the chaff to the grain that said YES

and YES was where unique explorations truly began

as easily as 1 2 3

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Leave it to a corporation to get it inside its head to get inside your head

                                                                                                                   and assign its ad department (was addept lost on everyone save him) a campain (lost again) to incite consumers to “quiver and quake and clutch at themselves” (thanks Frank)

Leave it to Corporation Nikon

                                                (he didnt know what its Internal Numbers were but hed be curious and edified to know what its rendered Market Share of cameras was  to snatch a glimpse of its coloured Summary Graph illustrating how cameras   embedded in cellphones  were affecting

its Sales) 

                I Am Generation Image (he was not)

Their published text was rife with doublespeak  with Internal code: 

                                                                                                           “(Generation Image) was born from a desire to understand people's relationships with their images . . . (they) are using their cameras as a tool to share what is important to them and each have the potential for significant impact.”

he got the “desire”   Their balance sheets  in the Red and in the Black

“relationships with their images”  he wondered what people would say about their relationships from photographs their Brownies and Instamatics  their “How easy is this? You point and shoot” took 

 

Yes  certainly they were many who aspired to Their ascribed "relationships"  though they were fewer and further between than any Corporation might concede

                                                                                                       but comon “using their cameras as a tool to share what is important to them and each have the potential for significant impact.”

Again  which cameras are those 

the cameras in cellphones  or Nikons

apparently  Selfies are "important"

although Consumers "significant impact" might be more in line with capturing something unexpected titillating and/or very possibly worth some much sought-after dog-eared cash

the throngs and throngs of opportune paparazzi invading the Public Space

 

or perhaps I Am Generation Image is the identifier of now untold generations of people here and in the future who will fall under Government, Police, Commercial and Private surveillance

no doubt spun  “for Your Benefit  for Your Protection  for Your Safety  (for Our Bottomline)"

for Those who hadnt a choice  neer a legitimate voice in the matter

seemingly  no One any longer has a Right to their private identity  or to anonymity

Everyone should give up their Civil Rights in order to make The Community more comfortable with them living in its midst

and somehow  not to Submit  make ones suspect

                                                                                  If you dont have something to hide

                                                                                               whats the problem

The Problem: Its none of your fucking business

Yes . . in a time of diminishing Rights Corporation Nikon steps in and attempts to enhance the Experience: I Am Generation Image

                                                              Ever see a dog swallow a bone and choke to death

I hope you dont

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