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Two Fingers of House Scotch –
a Diptych or a Dipstick or Something
1. Two Fingers of House Scotch
A bartender should be paunchy and
middle-aged
His oldest kid in college, the youngest in
jail
Cigarettes in five ashtrays down the bar
His name is Blue; nobody knows just why
If there must be a woman behind the bar
Let her name be Sophie or Maud or Toots
Makeup slapped-on, her hair dyed
trash-fire red
She misses stripping at the Flamingo
Frank Sinatra once bought her a drink,
yeah, true
But now she kinda has a thing for Blue
2. Six Centimeters of House Scotch
A bartender programmed by MicroPlop
Prototype to a braking system that failed
Disposable batteries smoking, on fire
Its model number is Hey You B-52
It remembers a third-party vendor by
name
What is the gender for a robot bartender?
Hey, big spender, is that a credit card?
Or maybe you’re just happy to code me
And the programmer who hacked it out of
plot
It’s rather like a lust-crazed coffee pot
https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/nation/goodbye-to-bartenders-robots-could-soon-make-your-drink/article_e24e2abf-0b1f-51df-b6b5-b79da01e0ff1.html
4 comments:
What's a dyptych? Sounds high tech.
For Roman times, yes, high-tech indeed - wax and a stylus. Then - and still - a hinged anything made of two flat plates, and also two Orthodox ikons on hinged plates (ikons are always flat), and more recently a cliche' expression for a two-part poem, usually by the sort of people who write "cerulean" when "blue" would do just fine, or who write about "gossamer" while not knowing what it is.
Thanks Professor, good to know. I'm partial to the phthalo blue and tulle myself. I bet I could write a good cliche dyptych too.
"Phthalo?" Hey, kid, watch your language; this is a family site. :)
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