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Month: July 2022

The Transit of Genius

The Transit of Genius

‘In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.’
Andy Warhol didn’t say.
He said something like it, allegedly.
But no one is sure what he meant by it.
What he might have said – less ambiguously – was:
In the past, everyone was fabulous for fifteen years.

The Flies Will Not Replace Us!

The Flies Will Not Replace Us!

‘Unite the bright! Unite the bright!’
Two hundred and fifty million glow-worms had heeded the call to oppose the rising tide of darkness.
‘Bright lives matter! Bright lives matter!’
At first, they floated about the walls of heaven-on-earth anti-clockwise.
‘Blood and chalk! Blood and chalk!’