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Published: 2009-04-04 07:58:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 582; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 11
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Description My toaster is made in Korea
or maybe China and the engraver lied;
My mobile phone is Swedish,
but it insists on French,

La belle langue.

These office supplies, are meant
to make life easier and lighter,
but I'm piled with instruction manuals.
Thank you, I can break them without
you telling me how.

The international radio is psychic,
so it’s probably by Apple,
And my ability to make lunch
Has sold itself to the "AUTHENTIC THAI"
restaurant down the street.

I’ve lost track of the phone book
And forgotten how many bank accounts
Exist under my name;

The Greeks are playing German football,
Curry is plotting world domination,
And I’m turning Japanese.

I can only express my desire
to save the ogapogo with
recycled paper from Thailand
and fifty foot tall robot-trucks.
The electric mice that live
in my holey pocket holiday in Sardinia.

My iPod is on a roll of Croatian music,
And I don’t think my calendar knows
It’s a few decades behind.

My watch is as Swiss as the
Belgian chocolate that shipped
Out of Shanghai yesterday,
Passing through Sarah Palin’s backyard
Only to melt on the suburban
Built-by-south-of-the-border-
labor gravel driveway.

Vancouver is a subset of Kowloon,
England isn’t English at all,
And I’m turning Japanese.

The speed-dial calls a
New Delhi taxicab instead of
The pizza delivery man and yesterday,
My therapist tried to sell me
Poached South African ivory.

I mix up Buenos dias and Ni hao
I confuse the and die,
I have lost the bloody phonebook,
And I’ve
Turned Japanese.
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Comments: 20

Prosaic-Scriptor [2009-10-15 02:14:08 +0000 UTC]

Haha, I remember this one. Very good, Joan!

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CornerstoneAscetic [2009-04-14 09:30:30 +0000 UTC]

Yes.

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ColonelFitz In reply to CornerstoneAscetic [2009-04-16 00:32:28 +0000 UTC]

Yes?

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CornerstoneAscetic In reply to ColonelFitz [2009-04-16 01:57:57 +0000 UTC]

Just appeasing my own guilt of not leaving comments of something I favorite.

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ColonelFitz In reply to CornerstoneAscetic [2009-04-20 07:07:07 +0000 UTC]

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pseudometry [2009-04-09 03:56:55 +0000 UTC]

Nice piece. As I read it I thought, everything is in flux and shifting, supplanting the familiar faster and faster: in a world of innovation and the intentionally ephemeral, where are you? Where is the constant, the persistent features of our everyday lives that define us? The repetition of "I'm turning Japanese" in particular serves to reinforce that. I think this taps into our generation's zeitgeist nicely. Well done, both of you.

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ColonelFitz In reply to pseudometry [2009-04-16 00:34:02 +0000 UTC]

Yes, it's the whole idea, is the melting pot concept increasing cultural diversity, or melding us in a homogeneous stew? Maybe a little bit of both. Or a lot.

Thank you very much.

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pseudometry In reply to ColonelFitz [2009-04-23 06:40:00 +0000 UTC]

I think a lot of both.

You are very welcome.

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xellikat [2009-04-05 03:56:56 +0000 UTC]

Confusing to turn Japanese...and lose the phone book (but what about the one in your phone?). I agree with the instruction manuals: I ALREADY KNOW HOW TO BREAK THINGS, MMKAY? Curry is awesome, but that's why it's taking over the world...as is your Swiss watch and Belgium chocolate chocolate IS my world.

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ColonelFitz In reply to xellikat [2009-04-14 07:36:31 +0000 UTC]

Maybe my phone is a landline and has no built in phonebook.

But thanks for the input.

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xellikat In reply to ColonelFitz [2009-04-15 01:29:06 +0000 UTC]

Ah. Then tack something up on the fridge that's likely to go missing once your back is turned.

Welcome~ that was input?

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ColonelFitz In reply to xellikat [2009-04-16 00:11:32 +0000 UTC]

I learned plenty about your breaking skills.

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xellikat In reply to ColonelFitz [2009-04-16 02:36:21 +0000 UTC]

True, that.

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FrauHippe [2009-04-04 13:12:42 +0000 UTC]

Wow. It must be quite confusing to turn japanese...

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ColonelFitz In reply to FrauHippe [2009-04-13 04:42:30 +0000 UTC]

Azzy whole-heartedly agrees. Third Culture Kids ftw?

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Azuire In reply to FrauHippe [2009-04-05 01:56:47 +0000 UTC]

You have no idea.

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xxxkurairozexxx [2009-04-04 08:12:58 +0000 UTC]

love it!

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ColonelFitz In reply to xxxkurairozexxx [2009-04-13 04:42:07 +0000 UTC]

Glad you do!

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devilsmarionette [2009-04-04 08:09:11 +0000 UTC]

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joanthedragon: ....you spam fast. D:
Amber: Everything isn't always what it fucking seems.
Amber: That.
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Amber: NOW THAT'S MY KIND OF POETRY!
Amber: XD
joanthedragon:
Amber: -fave-

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ColonelFitz In reply to devilsmarionette [2009-04-04 08:10:43 +0000 UTC]



Extra points of efficiency.

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