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Simon Said

 

Part One

Simon said

Resistance is

futile

measured in

futile meaning

directly proportional to

equal to

futile meme.

 

And I thought

has he

gotten back to you

got enough money to spend

got a car

feelings for me

a girlfriend

a passport assertive sentence?

 

Did he really use

birds to send messages

the USS Missouri in Battleship

horses to make glue

dawn to clean animals;

auto-complete?

 

So I thought if it’s good enough for the laureate,

it’s good enough for me.

 

Part Two

 

So I said

the Queen is

dead lyrics

dead vinyl

coming back

busy

dead album cover

dead book

dead tshirt

 

And I realised that Google

is still a fan of The Smiths.

 

Google is dead to me now.

Long live the Bing.

🌷(4) 

â—„ RBF

Q â–º

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