I Contain Multitudes (Of Banana Republics)

We're spending a week of part-work, part-vacation out on the eastern end of Long Island this week, and on the way we stopped by the Apple Store in Huntington to buy an iPhone for a friend. Turns out the Apple Store resides in the Walt Whitman Mall, which is rivaled only by the Walt Whitman rest area on the Jersey Turnpike in its rolling-over-in-his-grave quotient. The thing I love is that they've reprinted Leaves of Grass -- in the shape of leaves, mind you -- on the typically barren exterior of the mall. But every now and then one of the tenants has punched a window through the wall, interrupting the verse. I took this snapshot of Whitman's words dueling it out with a Sbarro chain.

The edited line now reads:

Sing on,
Sing on, you grey-brown
bird. Sing from the swamps,
the recesses, pour your chant
from the bushes. Limitless out of the
pizza, pasta
take out
804-0900

Comments

[helen hockney]

Steven, an absolute gem - - thanks for this.

[matt_c]

There's passage in a book about London called Lights Out For The Territory (quoting Twain) where the author, Iain Sinclair, wanders around the streets and notes down all the writing he sees; it's got that sort of crazy, mock profound, profundity.
First class.

[saft]

http://www.geiler-saft.com/

[acrylic beer boot]

Sexism is, is not a problem in society

[online black book store]

Premarital sex is, is not wrong

[650 arctic cat prowler]

Today was a complete loss, but oh well. I don't care. So it goes. Nothing going on , but shrug. Not much on my mind these days. Such is life.

[alarm]

Tobacco billboards are wrong

[audi]

A higher energy price is a sacrifice we have to make for cleaner fuels

[Steve]

I've just been letting everything pass me by , but so it goes. I just don't have much to say these days. Pfft. I can't be bothered with anything. More or less nothing seems worth doing. I haven't gotten much done recently, but oh well.

[pornodarsteller]

http://www.pornodarsteller.nacktebilderlive.com/

[mund]

http://blogya.de/cdfrtz2/