If a Gen Alpha is going
to see a Movie
and you dare to ask
what Picture they’re seeing
Prepare to be ridiculed
‘cos
“Who even says that?”
even though Movie
is short for Moving Picture
and you could have said Talkie—
or worse
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this is poetastry for sure
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Catherin, I love how this poem turns one small generational correction, “Who even says that?”, into a funny little history lesson about how today’s normal words were once the new slang too!
~David
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Thank you David! I feel it’s not very poemy though
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why do you say that? 🤔
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It feels especially prosey to me for some reason
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A cut-up sentence
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What do Gen A called movies then?
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They call them Movies, but I made the critical error of calling them Pictures : o
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I wonder if ‘pictures’ is from the UK and ‘movies’ from the USA and that there has been a general shift in Australia away from decent English to the bastardised version the Yanks like to use…
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I like this; has a delightful twist; a nub of nostalgia 🙂
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Thanks for the cute alliteration John
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hahha; glad you noticed, Catherin 🙂
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