Stieg Larsson didn’t sell his books
by talking on the television.
He died before they were published.
Any attention they got was on their own,
or because he died with a trilogy written
but unpublished. I think of Danny Casolaro,
who wrote a book called THE OCTOPUS,
about the military-industrial complex.
He died in a motel bathtub, his manuscript
and research notes missing. His death was ruled
a suicide. The Inslaw PROMIS software mess.
I’m getting a message from Microsoft saying
my version of Office is not authentic.
How can that be? What does it mean?
Steve Jobs markets a cell phone before
it’s ready. Ho hum, so what. Business as usual.
That’s life in the fast lane, kimo sabe.