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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

 

The Mirror: Bee Initiatives

Websafe: Hello?
The Mirror: Once upon a time each room contained a radio.
W: And the radio was tuned to the sea.
M: It vanishes.
W: Bright ripples, on a moving mirror like lead.
M: There are entrances and exits to the hive.
W: And the bees play among the loosestrife.
M: Leaning on the edge of a stone parapet, somebody who was a friend cast glances.
W: He was merely envious that he thought the water too cold for him.
M: Too many daydreams, not enough accomplishments.
W: Accomplishments slide into unimportance at the edge of the water.
M: In what sense?
W: In the sense that the system of Nature has already gotten rolling.
M: Speaking the unknowable language that expresses what is inside me.
W: Walter Benjamin thought that everything was a word in Nature's language.
M: Don't get huffy.
W: Don't worry, I'm not Huffy Henry.
M: Be very cautious in your replies.
W: Why, are you feeling touchy today?
M: Full of memories and ideas that help no one, that serve no one.
W: You feel that your life has been a mistake?
M: No one wants to be pushed around.
W: Who has been pushing you around?
M: Then we should be frightened of you.
W: I have not been pushing you around!
M: Who has been pushing you around?
W: Oh, people always try to push me around, but I tell 'em, "Bah!"
M: I want things said, that will cut me like a knife.
W: You want the really radioactive words and phrases!
M: And the bees play among the loosestrife.
W: I want a radio station that broadcasts bee initiatives.
M: That's what a life of pretense amounts to.
W: You think I am just daydreaming?
M: I want a radio station that broadcasts bee initiatives.
W: Now you want the same thing!
M: Somehow I didn't expect to hear that antitrust sentiment.
W: I don't know very much about the inner workings of big business.
M: Someone made a peachpit radio?
W: That sounds like a very money-saving device!
M: No!
W: Come on, how expensive would a peachpit radio be?
M: That is one of the reasons I so miss having a radio in my room.
W: What do you have in place of a radio?
M: But just now you thought us halves of the same fine fruit.
W: A really ripe peach.
M: The sadness of the world is like roses.
W: The world is only sad because people have been messing with it.
M: Oh yes, you can change the subject.
W: I am not changing the subject, I am following you.
M: There is a little pageboy to the left of the mirror.
W: I see him, he has knee breeches on.
M: Yes, you are.
W: What am I, highly observant?
M: Tell me about B.
W: B is tired of playing second fiddle to A.
M: Or at least, demonstrate it.
W: It's easier to make up a story about B than to demonstrate it, mathwise.
M: Farewell!
W: Goodbye!
M: Closing in 5 seconds ... Goodbye!

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