Monday, June 11, 2007

What if?

Assignment 4: What if...

What if…donuts were good for you?
What if…money reproduced like starfish?
What if…no one cared about Paris Hilton?
What if…MTV played music videos?
What if…people were actually paid according to the value of their work?
What if…rain hurt when it fell?
What if…people over 70 had to stop driving?
What if…you could ride tigers like horses? ..without fear of being consumed…
What if…college was free?
What if…we could all be part-human, part-animal of our choice?


What if…conservation was as big of a political topic as gas prices?
What if…you could shoot lasers from your eyes?
What if…looks really didn’t matter?
What if…you could pick an age to be your whole life?
What if…we had tails like a monkey?
What if…when you got hot you turned light blue?
What if…food never spoiled?
What if…J.R. never got shot?
What if…there were no political parties, and everyone just voted for the best person for the job?
What if… when someone said something mean to you, your ears shut off until they were done?


What if… you could rewind within the span of 1 day?
What if…the cold war never ended?
What if…the power went out….for good?
What if…you had to hunt/gather your food?
What if…golf was easy?
What if…we were never introduced to shame?
What if…Coke finally beat Pepsi, once and for all?
What if…they redid the musical Cabaret, using cats for the cast?
What if…other countries liked us?
What if…we could have cities underwater?

What if… forever is a reality, not a concept?
What if…God laughs at us?
What if…Wacom pens were easy to use instead of frustratingly inaccurate?
What if… healthcare was free like Canada?
What if… TV showed what was really happening around the world?
What if… you could take pill to change the way you looked for a day?
What if… the pets in your neighborhood had weekly meetings to discuss the termination of your block?
What if… you could just get the security sticker for your door from the Brinks man, instead of the whole system?
What if…people had to get certified before they had children?
What if…life was like it is on The Jetsons?

What if…bees didn’t sting and they made candy?
What if…all the spiders got shipped to space?
What if…pet rocks acted more like pets?
What if…kids weren’t sticky? (..maybe I’d want one..)
What if…people discovered Starbucks was actually freeze-dried Folgers in pretty cups?
What if…ponchos came back into style?
What if…people stopped fighting over things you can’t see? (boundaries, religion..etc..)
What if…the cookie didn’t crumble, it imploded?
What if…medicines that “may cause death” were removed from the market?
What if…we had gills on our feet?

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