Abstraction

Don Winiecki
Poets Unlimited
Published in
2 min readJan 5, 2016

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Abstraction was the first in its class to learn the A B C’s.
Abstraction sticks to the basics.
Abstraction always buys generic brand.

Abstraction doesn’t do why questions.
Abstraction doesn’t care where it sleeps.
Abstraction likes puzzles.

Abstraction’s favourite book is the dictionary.
Abstraction can’t recognize itself in the mirror.
Abstraction lives at the edge of town.

You can’t take Abstraction literally.
Abstraction looks best in black and white.
Once Abstraction gets involved, it’s all just academic.

Abstraction is just what you’ve been looking for.
Abstraction doesn’t have any special skills.
Abstraction can’t stay in just one relationship.

Abstraction always needs help to fit in.
Abstraction doesn’t have to explain itself.
Abstraction named its dog `dog`.

Abstraction doesn’t need a reason.
Abstraction is always fourth.
Abstraction prefers to go barefoot.

Abstraction can’t afford a house in the country.
Abstraction always carries a journal.
Abstraction will never ask for your name.

Abstraction wears an analogue wristwatch.
Abstraction doesn’t have an I.Q.
Abstraction is colour blind.

Abstraction is an optimist.
Abstraction was buddies with George Boole.
Abstraction reads dead languages.

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Don Winiecki
Poets Unlimited

Sociologist(ish), technologist(ish), artist(ish), poet(ish) of the inbetween, the spaces-left-free, the not-yet-defined that continually emerges in modernity