Fred Aiken Writing

Tag: advertisement

pop/up//click/around

pop up ads keep blinking on-
off-on-off—
i can’t seem to gracefully browse 
the abyss without
some piece of code
harassing me 
with a sense of inadequacy,
and the clues of what
i need to know don’t seem 
to come through clearly in the transmission

AN EMOJI MOVIE AD

the emoji movie looks like it could be fun,
i probably won’t watch it, still,
but hey, i can imagine
an alternate reality self possibly watching it
and wondering what their life would be like
if they hadn’t

THE AD I CAN’T SEE

haven’t been to an ophthalmologist in 3 years because

i’m certain they will fix up my eyes

and then i’ll have to see all the ads on the internet and highway,

and i don’t want to,

you can’t make me