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purple poetry
pomes, pennyeach...
By Sickle Moonlight
the flickering sliver of silver in the river’s
not a fish,
it’s an elver.
and later, when it’s lovingly lifted, it’s
not a bike,
it’s an eelevator.
Silver & Orange: Surf viva all the fittest
A yellowing son of a silver suitor
Taught UK the Orange name;
BT was slow to heed the tutor -
Now daily loses the numbers game.
Silver surfers seek perfection
On mobile-modem telephones –
Their choice, for error-free connection:
The name now sold to Francophones!
The future’s bright, the future’s Orange -
The lesson of this telecoms tale?
Old friendships easily break, or hinge.
Old-fashioned (not just old) will fail.
(note to non-UK friends: Orange, a brand floated by Hutchinson Telecom of Hong Kong, was massively promoted in the UK with “The future’s bright… “ as their buy-line, much to the discomfiture of British Telecom which by inference got labelled as old-fashioned; now Orange is set to be a leading brand in European telecoms having been sold to France Telecom)
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