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Cancellation is in effect.
The cooks are not spoiling their broths
just as the pots are discovering
that they will never be the new black.
The kettle is at a loss for words; black
isn't its colour either.
  
The proverbs are absolving.
The modern are transcending –
riding tempests, running deep.
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submission for -- exillior's contest: storm news.deviantart.com/article/10…
written by & therefore belongs to -- passingavery 

for a fifty-word-only contest; quite the challenge. don't include my title in the word count. i utilized the concept of old sayings/idioms/proverbs falling out with the times, as new sayings, new meanings take their place in current society. (hey, urban dictionary's a potential example of something 'modern'.)

for those of you who don't see them (though i attempted to pen them in such a way that they would jog at the memory), i was referring to "too many cooks spoil the broth" and "pot calling the kettle black".

the storm here lies in the drastic influx of new words and meanings that render old sayings obsolete. after all, think about it. does the pot calling the kettle black make any sense to you in this day and age? (neither of those two household appliances are black any longer. we believe in stainless steel.)

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This piece has been featured in my journal at [link] :love: