Hey! Just who is larcenizing what?
10. What I say is unencrypted. I should be cryptic
and I’m working that out, in my crypt. Right now, anybody could be cribbing me.
Which is cribbage. Goes well with a Mickey Dee’s sandwich, McRibbage. King Tut is also unencrypted.
Everyone’s laid bare in the disaster economy!
9. The penalties for theft have gotten lax. You have
to take a laxative, which many are taking anyway, voluntarily, at LAX, in the,
uh, ‘departure terminal’, wearing sensible slacks, consuming flaxseed among
other alternative legumes, super-foods, and avant garde oils.
8. I’m brilliant. I’m the author of The Picture of Dorian Grey’s Anatomy, PJ Harvey’s Bristol Cream, Flotilla the Hun, Junkie in the Trunk, Orson
Welles Fargo, and Third Aye Blind, as well as a chapbook, El
Pollo Loco Motive, a study of chicken-influenced crimes on the rails.
7. To recapture what I’ve taken from them. Then I
steal it back, then they steal it from me, then I steal it back, until we start leaving the writing
for each other in the oddest places. In each other’s backpacks. Written in soap
on the bathroom mirror. With a deep, penetrating glance.
6. Because the Second World
is gone. That is, there are more places to hide. Even if I could find the
thieves, what then? Turn them in to the authorities? What authorities? The
thieves—are the authorities! They lead a seminar, on their theft. I attend. I eat some Danish. It’s pretty good. (The seminar, not the Danish.)
5. Both parties love it. I love seeing my words in
their paperbacks. I love seeing my words in their blogs. I love seeing my words
in their Tweets. I love seeing my words in their thought balloons. Other larcenies are boring! They love it, too. They’re lazy.
It nourishes our polemic. It’s a real problem-solver.
4. They have a genetic predisposition. Did they grow
up in a tough environment, where plagiarism was the only way out? Heck no. They
have a DNA mutiny. They can’t help it. They see my words. They loiter. The next
thing you know—they’ve copied and pasted.
Uhhh, okay, Death, you can have my writing.
3. It’s a diversion. This language theft—is a ruse. They’re really coming for something else. My Pilot G-2 Pro? My purple egg? My Max Roach rare OOP? What is it? My Kangol beret? My inflatable comfort mammal? What is it? My renewable social contract?
2. I’m still hot. I keep rebooting the thermometer.
Seems like 99.2 is my new normal. Heh heh heh. I plug the thermometer into a
USB port, you know, to get the latest update. Thermo 11 point zero zero two. It
catches a virus. I catch a virus. I take my temperature. I’m even hotter!
1. I spend too much time in the back room. True, I
leave all my syllables unprotected (ripe!) on shelves, in lost and found bins,
on coat hangers, on countertops, in manilla folders, on the clothesline, in
buckets, all the while I’m in the back … writing … (feverishly!)
2 comments:
I feel closest to #7 and #3. Stealing and stealing back is at least as fun as a game of tag. #3 is just cool.
Sadly all my Max Roach rare OOP is gone! I shall need to be more vigilant about my OOP!
Thanks as always for your kind words, Jeff.
----BA
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