iPhone [x]S

An modified version of “Mercedes Benz” by singer Janis Joplin with the poets Michael McClure and Bob Neuwirth, which re-focuses the consumerism of the sardonic prayer on the technology industry:

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me an iPhone [x]S?
My friends all have Androids, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won’t you buy me an iPhone [x]S?

Here, ‘x’ is a variable able to iterate through new iPhone models as they arrive, currently equalling 6.

Janis Joplin iPhone Cover

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