”please drink responsibly”
there’s coughing in the corner-
it sounds almost
ironic?
“please drink responsibly.
please purchase our expensive
addictive
life-consuming
relationship-shattering
reason-dulling
beverage
and drink it
responsibly”
“smoking area”
eyes are shifting
in the corner;
it sounds almost
ironic?
“dying area.
please die here.
please inhale deadly toxins and breathe them out over here, please.
but don’t do it over there.
this is a
dying area.”
minds are shifting
in the corners-
because it sounds so…
ironic?
imagine if
it wasn’t
a beverage;
imagine if it was an
expensive
addictive
life-consuming
relationship-shattering
reason-dulling
beverage;
imagine if
it wasn’t a smoking area;
imagine if it was a
dying area.
“just die over there, please.”
“just gossip over there, please.”
“just harm people over there, please.”
i look at these signs
and i think
“how funny-
that should be a
‘dying area here’
sign.”
***
hot take on a thought i had a few years back when i friend and i visited hershey park for the first time and i saw a sign that said “smoking area.”
imagine if we had “dying areas.”
or “harming areas.”
i don’t think anyone would go to those.
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ahoy!
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Comments (1)
I love how you push the idea to 'dying areas’. It definitely made me stop and sit with the uncomfortable honesty.