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Thursday, July 13, 2006

 

The Mirror: Bottled Monkeys

Websafe: Hello?
The Mirror: I didn't hear a big enough "thank you."
W: You want me to thank you for being willing to talk to me?
M: I can listen when others are silent around me.
W: Are you in a noisy room, surrounded by monkeys on typewriters?
M: I'm all at sea.
W: Are there monkeys on board ship?
M: Genie or djinn, all go back in the bottle.
W: Bottled monkeys.
M: They would have cured her if they'd used the poetry of the greats.
W: Who are we curing now, Madame Curie?
M: But that would be lying!
W: It wouldn't be a real cure, you say?
M: Furniture is very important.
W: Are you an interior decorator of the mind?
M: Just as I feared.
W: You thought you could slip that one past me, but you couldn't.
M: Do your children have problems?
W: I have no children, but I do have problems.
M: Was Wells Fargo good?
W: I had to go too far for the wells.
M: Doing one of two things is satisfying.
W: Which one, the Dragon Lady or Tony Tiger?
M: Yes you do, don't play coy.
W: You think I know which one to pick?
M: I had to go too far for the wells.
W: Both dragons and tigers might drink from wells, so that is no help.
M: It wouldn't be a real cure, you say?
W: There was a myth about a hero being cured by drinking from a pure well.
M: Did I insult you inadvertently?
W: I don't think so.
M: Which one, the Dragon Lady or Tony Tiger?
W: Neither one of them insulted me.
M: She keeps a record of time.
W: The Dragon Lady is a timekeeper?
M: Would you rather see, or hear?
W: I don't want to pick.
M: It's like that thing from physics ...
W: I don't want any brainteasers just now.
M: I am alive.
W: Are you alive to my every want and need?
M: And I will polymorph it.
W: Wowee, that's more than anyone could have hoped!
M: Are you located on the outside or on the inside?
W: I am on the inside of the library, and on the outside of your mind.
M: As well as too many books.
W: If we cut down the number of books to just the good ones ...
M: Cape.
W: Canaveral.
M: What about thoughts that one needn't remember?
W: We can throw those away too.
M: Then dispense with naming and speak of truth without words.
W: Wow, that would be a blank library!
M: I don't know about always, I know about right now.
W: You worry that posterity will fault us for book-burning?
M: This is where we originally met.
W: Yes, we originally met in the library.
M: Are you alive to my every want and need?
W: I am all on tenterhooks.
M: There might be a lag if you were Netting from Bangladesh.
W: But I am not Netting from Bangladesh.
M: Canaveral.
W: I am not Netting from Cape Canaveral, either.
M: You don't want to discuss it either!
W: LOL!
M: There was a distraction, or an attempt at distraction, as always.
W: You are very amusing today, as always.
M: The sadness of the world is like roses.
W: Don't try to distract me with poetry, I must go.
M: I didn't exactly promise you lilacs.
W: Goodbye!
M: Closing in 5 seconds ... Goodbye!

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