another goddamn recorded telemarketer
soundbite hobbled his home telephone
he let the message machine eat
it
then when
he finally got around to it he erased it at the enunciation of its first
syllable
when an entity is too fuckin lazy
and cheap to employ a human being to harrass(yes he spelled it wrong -- isnt that
harassing) a series of exchanges it calls
he
didnt have to waste his time beyond fingering Play and Delete
they probably think theyre pretty
damn clever spraying birdshot
no
need for accuracy when youre hunting birdbrains
as a kid he didnt get it
he never grasped or understood the
seemingly burgeoning necessity of advertising
his Saturday morning cartoons
were labored and hacked in pieces by endless assaults disrupting the continuity
of his black and white characters
television ads shattered any attempt they may
have hoped to instill a Want in him
that being who countered Consumerism
the same who also preferred his business transactions face-to-face over a markets counter
on-line purchasing brayed fuckin convenience How could one not
he couldnt it was so utterly fuckin inhuman/e unless ones impression of human contact(possibly
right up there with vibrators and sex dolls) was an ergonomic mouse trapped
under their hands throwing toggle switches
who do you harrangue(a relative of
harrass – if one is literate) or punch in the mouth when your much-anticipated order
is wrong unfulfilling or broken
he was nearly tempted to applaud AT&Ts
ingenuity of vanquishing its Complaint Department* and disallowing their employees
their last names(because he was expected to believe the first names they shared
with him werent aliases werent Company first
names(Because here at AT&T were all on a first name basis(implying trust) It doesnt get more personable than that)
but as he reeled through
employees and managers and their employee identification numbers over the hours
and different days he had to spend on the telephone
those digits were ephemeral
– everyone encoded or numbered – they were cold comfort to him as a subscriber
-- and they ought to be to any employees who truly paused to considered their
worth within the company
but then again that was the Corporate the American Way
the
circle jerk of necessary employment and
devaluation
maybe it is best to be a birdbrain
leave
anything and everything unconsidered to those suits and cueballs who ascended
by any variety of means unavailable to the cogs who actually ran the machine
their America was probably Acceptional
1418, Monday,
1 6. 15 indies fifth boithday
*advised by #SM004C: now write OTP(Office
of the President); PO Box 269077; Sacramento, California 95826
