Zelda's Inferno exercise: revising

Posted on: Sun, 09/28/2008 - 21:05 By: Tom Swiss

Our exercise this week was to revise an old piece. This is based off of an exercise from back in June.

Why don't you have a nice cup of tea?

Why don't you have an SUV?
Why don't you have any idea what you want to be when you grow up?
Why don't you have your homework?
Why don't you have a pierced nipple?
Why don't you have a wife and two kids?
Why don't you have a Christmas tree?
Why don't you have a business suit?
Why don't you have a flat screen plasma TV?
Why don't you have an enemy?
Why don't you have an American flag pin?

Why don't you have a better idea?
Why don't you have a heart attack?
Why don't you have an orgasm?
Why don't you have a nice day?
Why don't you have a sense of wonder when you look up at the sky?
Why don't you have a sense of overwhelming gratitude for every single breath you get to take?
Why don't you have a Grand Unified Theory of physics, metaphysics, and psychology?
Why don't you have chills up and down your spine?

Why don't you have a six foot tall blow-up Godzilla doll?
Why don't you have a photograph of your own gall bladder?
Why don't you have a birthmark shaped like a 24 point bold Helvetica capital Z?
Why don't you have a dictionary of Chinese characters that's written in Linear-B?
Why don't you have an alphabetized list of everyone you've ever met?
Why don't you have your own placenta dried, mounted, and framed, hanging on the wall?

On second thought, why don't you just have a nice cup of tea?