Vicks and their Tricks

Oh I despise advertisers. They’re such liars! (Or at least perverters of the truth.)
They make people buy stuff they don’t need with money they don’t have.

**DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT**
Consider Vicks First Defence, a product featured in a Tube ad I saw the other day, which incited my hatred by claiming “to attack the [...]

Tell Me the Truth About Love

 
Saw this excerpt from W.H. Auden on the Tube yesterday. Thought it was good enough to share.  It’s in Collected Poems, Revised edition (2007).
 When it comes, will it come without warning
Just as I’m picking my nose?
Will it knock on my door in the morning
Or tread in the bus on my toes?
Will it come like a [...]