mmmccclxix

whiz aplomb
(a waltz; for l
ack of further

abstraction:
dis crumply
’tis [of thee].

uh, thi
s need
s work.)

okay, so now

that the title’s
been offered,

please forget 

it because it’s 

100% irrelevant 

(or is it?) (damn,

sorry, just kid
ding, it is!) (i

rrelevant, i
mean). let
me start a

gain. okay,
so it’s better
today to use

a phrase like
sustained inn
ovation than

disruptive any
thing is the pr
emise here. i

can see that,
but let’s not
even begin t

o deny such
reinvention,
such innova

shin is always
at play, and in
terms of old, a

s in old school,
business, or e
ven just the n

otion of old fa
shioned – esp
ecially in bidd

en hiss – that
which brings
in the dough,

so to speak
(which i’m
not. speak

ing, that is),
in terms of
old anything,

things beco
me flatulent,
or else a frag

ment, stagnant?

i cannot read m

y own hand wri

thing, here.
today, the
savvy are

mostly al
ways look
ing for any

chinks in t
he armor, o
ur armoire

are houri, o
wer own per
sonal am

our, let’s 

just leave 

it at that f

or now....
the savvy
today are

just lookin’
for chinks
in our arm

our, are al
ways looki
n’ for such

chinks, and
i do mean al
ways, and th

ere just so hap
pen to always
be words, such

as always, that
i cannot for the
life of me figure

out what i meant
to have written it
to mean, though 

it be just written
this morning. to c
ontinue, i do me,

an always better
and more colorful
and more lucrative

way of reaching t
hat stated or desi
red goal, or of co

mpletely erad
icating that s

ad goal, of m

aking sure one
that’s perhaps

in the same fa

mily as the old
goal, but has mo
re panache and/or

most often necess
arily gets the job d
one. and better and

faster and cheaper
.... am i missing so
mething, like clean

er or clearer? (yea

h, more than likely).
and, let’s be clear

here, the way to t
he greatest could in

deed be cheaper, e

ven as millions of con

sumers are, more ofte

n than not, willing to d

ole out more money
for the fastest, the
tastiest, the most e

fficient aspects of
the hypothetical r

esult. it is (or did

i write, is it?) a no-
win for the tried a
nd true? the staid

mechanisms which tim
e and tide have shown

are quite proven to work.

WHAT IS WORKING,
after all? do i even
have to work? what’

s an office? what i

s, and here’s an ar

ea, situated so spe

cifically for its own des

truck shin, and, boy, w

hat an area it is for dis

rupting, and for being 

disrupted and/or disrup

tive, it’s the parcel most

positively in need of

a change, any chan

ce of it being an evolu

shin nary process, it’s an

ecology for disrupting, for 

destroying, for rebuilding 

it in one’s image, for 

your personal priorit

ies, for your business 

priorities, for just cuz i
wanna priorities, with w
hom should one speak?

are there any bots or a
multitude of bots or even
more bots plus robots for

which to hug our consumers?
to what should we most often
non sequitur? to whom might

one beg? you, my friends, are
getting the idea. i can see a g
limmer in your eye, the left one,

at least, the one that seems al
ways to be looking right at me.
you’re in the know, aren’t you?

yeah, you know what, you’re
not only in the know but you
know perfectly well that you

do that thing that you do,
and how it gets! me. the
streetlamp. all the cats an

d dogs. other people. ev
erything. you know what
’s imp and what’s non-pro

blematically ignored, you
know what’s in, and you
’re perhaps aware of the

deus ex machina that’s
so obviously coming (a
nd soon!). these are y

our tried and true and
seminal and boring, r
what you’ve been coun

ting on for who knows
how long just to be ce
rtain that what needs

to get done gets done.
right? soon, each and
every one of us left w

ill be the grunts you’ve
enslaved to ever so gle
efully and effortlessly u

p the ante, to change th
e universe, making ever
y rockin’ day as if it were

the last, as if nobody’d ev
er realized that the night
mares we all have could

rather be used to wash
and wear, or did i simply
write to weather, or

maybe it’s whatever,
but i think what it re
ally says is wagon wh

eel. yes, unlike hum
ans who are exactly l
ike me, i cannot spot

one of you sad sacks,
in, like an instant, so
please kindly tell me

if you’d’ve been rath
er generous: the ch
it that I shouldn’t’ve

given up today was so
generous that i’m bei

ng like that last good

man remaining, found

just today, of my long
gone species? should i

not quite simply and 

post hastily give up 

immediately? so the 

question before you is 

should i give up today? 

and if so, on what? sho

uld i insist, then, tomorr

ow? and do all of the ma

chines, and do all of the 

processes, and do all t

he trees, and do all of 

the transport services,

and do all of the beach
es, and do all of the go
vernment agencies, and

do all of the duds, all of 

the dates, and all of the
plants, and all of the nuts.

nuts, decide with every

one else that that’s exact

ly what we are (each and all) 

how we r made to make this,

this, and this unrepentantly

distasteful decision all for 

ME? and will, so far. the new
year even, because by then
i’ll have all of my pockets fill

ed with nouveau cash, and 

i’ll be working at a three st

ar restaurant, on a cruise s

hip, or else I’ll be a gu
est on the same cruise,
or, say, which word m

ight soon be available
for sale, by which i me
an what planet should i

colonize, come on, you
can tell me, it’ll be our
little secret, and pronto,

and what new or immed
iately impending anoma
lies should i, meaning we,

be worried about, or be 

preparing for, or be look

ing forward to, and what 

are the ways we can make 

ourselves the best we can 

be at the properest of times

so that we may receive what

we then will receive in the m

ost and the moistiestly appro

priate manner, so as to indi

cate that we men are, in a 

manner of speaking, (and i’m 

not, once again, and for the 

record) merely dicks? how 

swift and how economical,

if we put our best efforts and a

ll of our energies together, mig
ht we assist your universal ent

ity in order to achieve said goal? 

(was a goal ever even men-shin

ned?) why, you really are the best, 

is what i’m nearly certain is what 

you’ll all be saying to me next. c

uz i really am about to be saving 

your ridiculous waste of life, a life 

of lifelessness, a life of foul will, a 

life of sour little pills, a dour life t

hat i shall never put one oun

ce of effort into pushing onto 

a piece of pimpernel papier, e

ven it were a roll of the quainte

st pimpernel-colored toilet paper. 

because, no anomaly, me, i have

worked out that i’d come to
your rescue, despite all the 

thoughts based on strategies

you might’ve had to the contra

ry, despite your complete lack 

of faith in humanity and us non-

human losers.  and while you’re

at it, what was your name a

gain? might you direct me to the 

nearest all-inclusive, omnisexual

ly-safe (meaning both omnisexual 

and safe) lavatory?  or to the near

est whizzable roof; to the roof 

designed for its whizzability; 

take me to your whizzing roof 

so that I can take a piss while simul 

taneously doing my self the favor of 

having a quick and dirty pick-me-up.