Friday, April 16, 2010

Post office flag.



I resort to Auden - he was paid to write this and it shows


The pink, the violet, the white and the blue,
The chatty, the catty, the boring, adoring,
The cold and official and the heart's outpouring,
Clever, stupid, short and long,
The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong.

Sentiments from another time and place, nobody types (we text), printing is anti-social, and incorrect spelling is a symptom of technological incompetence rather than simple ignorance. I like what the image and the poem say about each other.

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