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check the box

By giggling nihilist

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- title: check the box subject: banality of all that unidentifiable contraptioness you buy  i don't know,   what does the box say? and more idiomatic phrases? read the instructions   they're all in piglatined hybrid russian slang i think we need a translator     i think that is a right right right thought thunken,  spoken. i don't know, what does the box say? nothing... it's just a plane for advertisement       "..and other features of  our  piece of  devial contraption that you just can't live without include:           post- op. banality of cutlery       and significant loss of financial institutional gracefulness with or without exceeding verbose rudeness on automated company                dial 1 and  the pound sign or stay on the line for another computerized assistant representative of our fine establishedment in a shrill monotony that reminds me of  the southern belle hop's distorted speech shreik... if you would like to repeat the menu press 146 and the pound sign.... we appreciate your business.... we love to tastefully waste you and the time you're glued to.    after we are the tasteful wastes of  societalindustry. a bottle of ...OF.... yes, that will be on any of my scores of plastics. thankyou fakefully. " and      this      was      just      the        fine        print yeh yeh that's what the box said, or at least that's what he told me. the box uttering fine print sharp quick -esta poema es muy terrible! --pues, o pues. oye. it's jus' somethin' i scribbled when a fren at a HOUSE said, "i don't know, what does the box say?" --i stared at her, in her dependence on the box and dirty socks. in a sort of disbelief as a poem broke lose in mein brain... but was kinds o' kinked,, needs work? yeh. it's jus' a rant at the moment,. methink./s Written January 25th, 2002 © on Jan 25 2002 12:40 PM PST   10 • 0 • 1

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