Dead Giveaway
By Dan Hogan
Published 15 December 2022
Feast your eyes on the lung candy
as it whips through the air at a speed
marvellous save for the foul accents
protruding less in plumes and more in
ribbons, if you catch my drift, do not
resuscitate. So long and thanks for all
the cosmic indigestion. Not! You can bet
your bottom dollar I'm looking at you,
capital. The reheated heat death is a dead
giveaway. As is the mistrialled pause,
singing claims. I kid you not. The barbaric
strut withers the question's mark. Play tonsil
hockey at the exhumation of the toiler’s memory
hole wrapped in bureaucracy. And for what?
A door spot? The instant restoration of an imagined
blueish-green? Listen, I want
to tell you the story of the plastic bag
broadcasting workplace wellbeing webinars
from the deepest trench in the known ocean, but
I have desires on good authority. Go to the shops if
you want to feast your eyes on the graveyard after
an earthquake. It's not gambling if you get an
accountant to do it. Someone else’s money
will be on you again. Here lies a pony hung
like a horse with no sick leave. I will grieve
the absence of bereavement perks before hometime
sits bolt upright from a coma party. End users hit
notification bells above the infirmary. Meanwhile,
management invents Artificially Intelligent scabs,
employs them at the laughter cannery. The chortles
are a dead giveaway. O how they clapped for that
little sundial with its warted thresholds and rimmed
malfeasance as it limped into the inescapable work
Christmas doo. Felt delete, might cute later. Feast
your eyes
on the nerve. No tombstones, no worries. Link inside
biography. And might I add: detrital tightwad is
not exactly becoming of an evening light. I'm telling
you this because that's how they getcha. Outbribe the
naughty boss. Crap plastic. Feast your eyes on the
high octane loveliness. Share this memory. Home is
where the shart is. Devolve. Shart if you agree. Chances
appreciate. Worms love bread. And hair. But not too
much bread. Say the loud part loudly and never
comradely. Disregard saucily and let the good times
payroll. Shitpost the pain away. Google Amazon.
6,430,000,000 results in 0.51 seconds and here I was
thinking lungs of the earth. That’s how they getcha.
Feast your eyes on the dead giveaway. Sit with your
order’s tracking information. Bury it deep beneath your
quicksand castle and check back tomorrow to see more
gravequake disintegration method. Like the bubblegum
in the urinal before it tumbled from your mouth, we hope
you enjoy looking back and sharing the chapter of sky
you split at the spine for split’s sake. No tombstones,
no worries. Feast your eyes. If I’m repeating myself it’s
because that’s how they getcha. It’s a dead giveaway.