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Aspect Ratio

Your aspect ratio’s wrong.

Stretching the truth

this long sows fertile ground

for artifacts, glitches,

quirks & bugs, worming

& squirming beneath pixel

shrugs. The worst kind

plump the frame to god-

awful proportions, bloating

bigger & bigger & bigger ‘til

vision’s engulfed.

Or the kind that squeeze

spaghetti confetti onto

our plates, drenched in

the Sauce of the Week

that “can’t be beat!”.

Your skewed parallax

attacks the facts at hand.

Recycle your *******

fax machine this second before

it grows smarter than

you. Yes, you—with the rolly

polly eyes & feint surprise—

quit pretending you’re dumb,

'cause you ain’t that numb

to the stings & pangs of change.

Your sloppy hacks produce

quantity @ the cost of quality

to benefit the greedy & satisfy

the needy, becoming seedy

to the logic of reason.

Correct your inputs to render

outputs worth tender & please

remember, it’s what’s within

the frame that’s important,

so get it right.

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Written by
travis-dixon
American
Published
Sep 23, 2010
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#poetry#media#entertainment#tv#television
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