apotropes for misanthropes

a memo to Vancouver:

please stop doing the thing with the stretching the earlobes.
stop.
you're not from Africa.
stop.
it looks gross.
stop.
it's over.
stop.


a memo to Academia (and pseudo-academia too):

stop putting 'r' and 'd' prefixes in parentheses before words that start with vowels.
stop.
it's not clever
stop.
you are not subverting anything that way.
stop.
it never began.
stop.