BABACOOTE
One push after another.
Just bring the limbs together
and tilt.
Though don't push too hard
or quit pulling
at the sails in the rigging.
Listening for the frequency
as the amplitude changed
(louder)
Listening for the amplitude
as the frequency changed
(slower, lessening)
'kos
AABB BABA BBAA
ain't
ADDIS ABABA
or
ALBUQUERQUE
unless I know how to pin letters
to a route map
or follow putative cues off
a flow chart
When Marconi had to show
that a message could be flung out
by remote transmission
to St John's Newfoundland
transatlantic
he sent the letter 'S'
[Footnote:
'When man wanted to imitate walking,
he invented the wheel...' - Apollinaire;
Khlebnikov's phonics, Perec's symmetrical
palindromes, everybody's Dada]
PS Reading list messages on delay
over digests via public access PCs.
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