Selling the Product.

I saw this at Helen’s blog, and liked it sufficiently to re-blog it.

"a salesman is an it that stinks to please

but whether to please itself or someone else
makes no more difference than if it sells
hate condoms education snakeoil vac
uumcleaners terror strawberries democ
ra(caveat emptor)cy superfluous hair"

~Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962)

I tried to be a salesman once – lasted one whole, horrible year. I’m glad to say I failed miserably; that was one role I couldn’t play. And I think it worth remarking that advertising is the most prolific form of salesman these days.