INTELLECTUALIZING
by Joanna Gilman Hyde
The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:50pm
I am The Intellectual
sitting cross-legged on My Tomato-coloured Couch
drinking lemon-flavoured seltzer
from My Life Message Glass
–
I gaze from My Central Candle
to The Winter Window
& wonder when My “Good Morning, World!”
will enter every household
Joanna Gilman Hyde 
OVERRROACH
A single hand clap
Intended to rouse the world
Just startled the cat
(This is not a response BTW, not a criticism.)
I live with seven cats, yet My Intention IS to rouse the world.
Loved it – all of it. “Like the Romper Room Lady” – great reference. I too would like to shake them (slap ’em?) all out of the coma, —Chagall
Thank you so much for this comment. Any ideas on how to get it viral? My husband and daughter think it never could go viral.
Quick ideas on going viral: leverage your contacts and your celebrity; get more aggressive on your home page directing the flow to the video.
Consider though if by its very nature, this sort of video might never go viral, as a virus requires a receptor to bind to. In the case of your message, you are attempting to implant, awaken the receptor. So perhaps your strategy needs to be a 2-step one: first, get the receptors humming out there, create a receptive field, and then deliver the “virus” which is the call to awakening and to arms, the stuff of your video. Perhaps a 1 minute excerpt of a long-ago world atop 5WTC, at the start of the video, sunlight – sounds of the city – with a literal fade to black, and “Good Morning World . . . .”
I hope I have not overstepped my bounds in this comment. I respect you deeply from afar. —Chagall
Thank you very much for these suggestions. I have put the link on my home page profile, and as for the rest, I will consult My Husband.