<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=563978" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mixed Metaphors</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fast and funny, smart and very nimble<br>is his mind, the poet thinks, <br>making what is complicated simple, <br>mixing metaphors like drinks, <br>until, becoming quite inebriated, <br>his speech begins to slur, <br>and, manic as a tom-cat that has mated, <br>his poems fail to purr, <br>and thoughts like literate lemming herds stampede<br>as fearlessly they dash<br>till, unrestrained by Microsoft, with speed<br>on pixeled screens they crash, <br>as slow as death and very sadly humbled, <br>like cats that have been fixed, <br>while, static as statistics, he has stumbled<br>in metaphors he's mixed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Barbara Ehrenreich reviews 'Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, ' by James Gleick ('Pantheon' in 'Think Quick' (NYT Book Review, September 12,1999) . She says the book is 'nimble, smart, often funny, and -best of all - fast.' She explains that Glueck says that 'we glom onto Diana or O. J. or John Jr. like a lemming herd in full stampede. Against all expectations, the collective brain that emerges from our ever-richer connectedness is turning out to be kind of dumb'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>9/15/99</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=563978" data-title="Mixed Metaphors de Gershon Hepner" data-description="Fast and funny, smart and very nimble is his mind, the poet thinks, making what is complicated simple, mixing metaphors like drinks, until, becoming quite inebriated, his speech begins to slur, and, manic as a tom-cat that has mated, his poe..."></div> </div> </div>

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