I (or any number of people)(customers)
received a product labeled with
“Use this bedding
for blanket forts,
movie marathons,
a reimagined
breakfast table
and a great
night’s sleep.”
This did not worry me until
I REALIZED (Fr.: to bring into existence + M.E.: verb-making word element)(verb: action)
1. The product is not a blanket.
2. I have no one to build a fort with.
3. Should blankets be kept inside a fort for their own safety? From what?
4. Is a movie marathon a time when you cover up and watch a lot of movies until you
can’t stand it anymore like dancing in the movie They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? from
1969?
5. Should I use a blanket as a movie screen?
6. Should I screen the movie first?
7. Before movies, did everybody just watch a bunch of stills, like a slide show?
Still.
8. A ‘reimagined breakfast table’? So, lunch?
9. ‘A great night’s sleep?’ I can’t sleep now! This is way too stress-
ful.
E T V H E I R N Y G
C O O N L I L T A S P E S L T I F N G
even
D M E A C K I I S N I G O N

I like to watch what’s on on TV.
I like to play the radio in my car. (How clever the DJ picks my songs and I can opt in or out,
since I already have another job that makes me decide in or out.)
I like the album songs in the order the musicians/producers put them in,
not jumping around. (Maybe they were.) (The musicians, I mean.)
Aren’t food labels, recycling numbers, other drivers, and scammers bad enough?
Gonna use this bedding for BED.

Tad Phippen Wente lives on Lake Michigan’s Port Washington lakeshore where she writes about nature and what it means to be human (in a quest to figure that out). Her writing appears in Wisconsin publications and a children’s book, novel, and chapbook. She enjoyed teaching Creative Writing for many years.