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I have a lot of old magazines. The best part of these magazines, sometimes, are the ads. They implore. They interrogate. They predict and warn. They promise transformation. I wondered what would happen if I took an issue of one of these old magazines and, stealing language from these advertisements, cobbled together a new narrative. What voice would emerge? What preoccupations? This mad little ditty is what resulted.