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Title:       A Picture is Worth a Thousand Bucks
Date:        2022-04-07
Link:        https://spool-five.com/poetry/2022_apr7_sayings/
Word Count:  139
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Today's prompt suggested taking a common proverb/saying and writing a
poem which "argues against or somehow questions" it.

I decided to use the phrase "A picture is worth a thousand words." I
have been writing a blog post[1] on the role of images on Gemini and
the web, so the phrase popped into my head. It has always struck me as
having a double meaning:(1) Pictures are a rich and narratively complex
form, and (2) pictures are far more <em>efficient</em> at communicating
than words. This, second, interpretation makes the phrase sound a bit
capitalistic.
=>[1] https://spool-five.com/posts/2022-04-14-gemtext_and_image/

    The editor said
    That words were dead
    No click-through potential
    No incentive for ad-rentals
    Keep them short
    and snappy and fun
    Long-winded articles are for the birds
    A picture is worth a thousand words