I was intrigued by the Gumball Poetry Movement in the US which dispenses poems through gumball machines, instead of gumballs
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if they expanded on this concept? What if they replaced everything in vending machines with poems? And they didn’t tell people? And people put their coins in and went to reach for their Ninja keyring or hot coffee or Kit Kat or emergency tampon and instead out popped a poem, wouldn’t that just make people really happy and grateful? It almost brings a joyful little Utopian tear to my eye
12 responses so far ↓
1 Matilda // Jul 16, 2008 at 4:17 pm
“And people put their coins in and went to reach for their … emergency tampon and instead out popped a poem, wouldn’t that just make people really happy and grateful? ”
Umm, not particularly, especially if it read:
A tampon’s not appeared to thee
instead you’re blessed with poetry
words designed to soothe the soul
a modest gumball dispensing goal
far more worthy a gift perchance
than having unsoiled underpants?
2 squib // Jul 16, 2008 at 5:12 pm
‘A tampon’s not appeared to thee
instead you’re blessed with poetry’
raofl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh that’s VERY good Til!!
3 Mad Cat Lady // Jul 18, 2008 at 1:07 pm
that is beautiful
Somebody should write to the Libra and suggeset they replace the trivia on the back of the sanitary napkins sticky covery bit with appropriate poetry.
4 squib // Jul 19, 2008 at 11:14 am
I didn’t know the sticky covery bit had trivia? You mean like fantail wrappers?
5 Ben // Jul 19, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I like to think of myself as a kind of poetry vending machine.
6 Mad Cat Lady // Jul 20, 2008 at 6:45 am
Yes and no. It’s actual trivia like … um … the number of hours the average person would be waiting at a traffic light during their lifetime or Rabbits are born with hair and hares aren’t. Stuff like that.
I appreciate that they haven’t sold it to advertising.
7 Ben // Jul 21, 2008 at 8:37 am
It’s FanTALE wrappers…it’s a pune!
8 squib // Jul 21, 2008 at 9:53 am
Do you know Ben, I actually checked the spelling before I posted that but it seems Wallies Lollies is not an authority on spelling
http://www.lolly.com.au/products_id/265/ALLENS_FANTAILS_ALLENS_LOLLIES-ALLENS_FANTAILS_ALLENS_LOLLIES.html
9 Ben // Jul 22, 2008 at 12:25 pm
What an ast0undingly ugly and poorly spelled site. You sell lollies but you don’t have the time to glance at a packet before you enter the name on your crappy little website?
Wallies Lollies, you have lost me as a customer. Andies Candy all the way from now on.
10 squib // Jul 22, 2008 at 12:44 pm
(phew, I’m so glad you didn’t launch into a tirade along the lines of what sort of sad idiot would google the spelling of fantales before posting a comment in relation to sanitary pads)
11 Ben // Jul 24, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Why would I say that? Spelling is always the most important thing.
12 squib // Jul 24, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Really? Because I would have thought it was Andy’s Candy
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