Is there anything more naff than emojis? I’d always thought they were about the lowest form of communication known to man. But…
I was wrong. Perhaps it’s my recent trip to Japan – but saying it in pictures sometimes says it better than words.
This was my week:
📥📝📯📨📤🚜💩🐓💣👴👵💤👃🏃⌚️🏠🌵🌛🔙🔜⁉️
Probably only one other person in the world truly knows what this means. But the laughter we shared on opposite ends of mobile phones puts emojis on a par with poetry.
As Aristotle almost said, perhaps sometimes the job of the poet is to say something transcendent and universal about the human condition – in no more or less emojis than are needed…
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Achilles & Aristotle 