I try
to escape
lines
with no apparent end.
Did you know…
subliminal advertising is used to get you to buy more popcorn?
They show images
at 1/40th of a second
to cross a threshold, you don’t know you have crossed
because
it’s beneath your awareness
like a cat
slipping under a door.
Who would have thought
a fat cat
could make itself go flat?
No wonder, there are so many sick people
in society.
George Bush used subliminal advertising
against
Al Gore.
They showed potential voters, RATS
with a picture of the Vice President smiling.
Ever wonder why
you want spaghetti
and not Teriyaki?
The advertisers
sneak inside your mind like rats
gnawing, with suggestions
to make you think
what they want.
Automatic Pilot
allows my mind to wander
like an airplane
without gasoline.
I ride down tunnels of golden leaves
in the lukewarm air.
I don’t care about anything.
Nature sublimates my mind
with her seasons.
I feel like the sunshine is inside of me.
Classical music erases my mind
with the emotions of the centuries.
If I can choose what I want,
I will glide forever
on the thermals
that carry
beautiful leaves.
Intellectual Shaman 
This great post brought back some TV memories. Do you recall a “Columbo” episode that involved subliminal cuts? Oh, it was genius! Robert Culp was the bad guy (isn’t he always?) who was in the movie-making business. Just as you pointed out, subliminal cuts of salty popcorn were incorporated into the movie to make his victim thirsty. One trip to the water fountain did not end well and it was up to the clever lieutenant to figure out the puzzle. Those were great shows. Why aren’t there great shows like that on TV anymore? 📺
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I don’t remember, but I’m watching a lot of Columbo these days… I’m not sure why they can’t make a TV show like that.
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Because it won’t make any money because isn’t full of sex and violence and disgusting language which I’m all for but in its proper place. A show like Columbo would be laughed out of Dodge these days by the same fools who watch The Kardashians and The Bachelorette other shite like that. Give me American Movie Classics and Turner Classic Movies any day. I don’t need porn on my TV; it’s available on the net.
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Yeah, your point makes sense. I wonder if it’s too difficult to be creative or original. Probably, it’s difficult to know if something original will sell. It all boils down to money and bad taste. As Bukowski says, “Bad taste has created a lot more millionaires than good taste.”
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However, the psych studies showed, that, the exposures to the stimuli more, is what made us, lean towards it, given that, you are, neutral about that, particular, stimuli, to, begin with.
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Too true taurusingemini!!!
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A poem that answers my need to hear a truth sayer, a voice crying in the wilderness. Thank you.
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You are welcome Suzanne!!! 🙂 Thanks for reading and commenting!
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Wonderful poem; beautiful ending 💙.
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Thanks, Mairi!!! 🙂
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