Archive for July, 2007

Randomness in spades

No serious intro to this one,

Piecing it together as I go along,

Not paying attention to

Whether stuff this time round,

Will Rhyme, but I

Will step back,

Sneak a peek

Look at this piece,

What the heck have I…?

It’s the one about addiction,

Y’all got yours, I’ve got mine,

Come to think of it, what’s yours

Could easily be mine.

One thing’s for sure, once you get a hit,

…. even for a bit.

You’re hooked and can’t let go of that **it

Start off small,

Let’s not get carried away,

You know you gotta have more,

All or nothing at all

Three won’t do, heck not one not four.

Dammit, need a fix

Won’t settle for anything less than six

Hundred.

do the math,

Odds of pulling that off are five to five

These are the thoughts that lurk,

Somewhere private

somewhere dark

The stuff that spills to the surface when you won’t give a…

Lost my train of thought,

I say that like it’s a loss by any standard,

Yet this makes sense, I haven’t lost the plot,

Got a grip, board a ship,

forget this verse,

To the next, let us skip.

An attempt at the diverse,

The kind where I don’t converse,

But string a long a variety of phrases,

In a pattern that sort of amazes.

Want to stop here,

Take my medication,

long overdue

For some sort of rehabilitation,

But look around,

Do some meditation,

Coz you need the salvation.

On further contemplation,

Last line wasn’t necessary,

Neither was this post,

This far you’ve made it,

Me…

I couldn’t pass up the temptation…

And now, a shot at redemption

While I look for my “happy”

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The Reason Being…

I was going to write something compelling, something deep, but after these fifteen words….zilch

The thing about sales…

Was once asked about my thoughts on marketing. If I recall correctly, my response was you’ve either got it or you don’t… you can sell a burger to a vegetarian, or you can’t.

Last night I took a stroll through what many have come to call our equivalent of a Red Light District. Its got the requisite Anatomical Sales Associates (prostitutes) and pimps. On Mondays, however they are a little harder to find. Not that I’d go out of my way to look for ‘em . I took this walk to ease my troubled mind.

Was with my pals when we chanced upon an open GTV sales point. For those new to the whole phenom that is GTV, allow me to elucidate. Television has evolved. Gone are the days where we would wait for that one hour to watch a comedy. With subscription TV services we can watch that comedy every 4 hours. No more shall we have to wait for the following day’s newspapers to find who played what in which game, satellite TV is the shizzy my nizzy…and then there’s GTV.

Surely by now, you’re picking up on my reluctance to be suckered into the PR machine that has been threatening to unseat the king of Digital Satellite Tv, DSTV…odd, there’s a certain lack of creativity as far as the naming process goes back there. How the hell do you market it on the basis of a name?

Speaking of marketing, we walk into the sales point and there’s this dude that doesn’t seem all too pleased to be there. Which is odd, considering that in the developed world people work well past 8pm.
So begins the line of questioning,

Us: What does GTV stand for anyhow?

Him: What do you think?

{I think you’re just being unfriendly, but anyway}

Us: Graduated TV? Guess TV? Great Scott! That’s Television!!

Him: You’re fun-eh!

{no shit?}

Him: It is Gateway Television.

Us: Okay, so why should we move to GTV?

Him: Eh…first of all, DSTV has lost most of its channels?

Us: Really? Like which one?

Him: You find out

{that’s what we’re trying to do Einstein}

Us: Okay, so you have like five channels

Him: No, we have ten, and DSTV has 20…but we are getting some more.

{okay. At this point I feel obliged, somewhat, to remind you that his initial pitch was that we should make the switch because DSTV has lost most of its channels… anyway…}

Us: so how much is a G-coder?

{geddit? Instead of Decoder? No? he didn’t either, so… he tells us how much, but we still need to know…}

Us: How soon will you have new channels?

Him: Sooner than soonest can be soon…

Ladies and Gentlemen, I rest my case. You either got it, or you don’t. Hey!

For I….

Began work at my new place of work and I

For some reason don’t quite feel it, but I

Figure I need to stay the course and try

To weather the storm and stay the course, until I

Can figure out what else to do. Not gonna be easy coz I

Seem to have picked up some negative disposition which I

Can’t seem to let go of, but depression is a thing that I

Have no reason to suffer from seeing as I

Could be in so dire a situation that I

Wouldn’t be able to get out of so bad yet I

Realize that there are loads of distractions that help us see past the grey

Here’s to my distraction(s)

With this hand…

She said she could read palms.

I thought nothing of it. Yet, glancing back, I wonder…

She took my hand into hers, furrowed her brow, deep in thought, pondering. I took a sip of my drink with my free hand, nonchalant. She peered harder, hard enough to get my attention. I put my glass back onto the table, leaned forward and looked at my hand.

“It’s not good, not bad either, but this is…”

I asked her what she saw, what she meant.

“Well, according to this, you are going to be very successful, possibly wealthy…”

Sounded good so far, but I knew there was more to come.

“…but, well, it looks like you won’t be happy.” There was some sort of finality in the way she said those words.

I thought nothing of it; the night went on without further incident.

That was a while back, forever ago, its 2:22 pm now, I’m looking back….

And thinking.