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it should sound like a voiceover
sent back to earth
from a space station
in the future.
if you could muster
the tone
of a history book
summing up this civilisation
in a single sentence.
you would be close.
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how would you say it
if you were to tell the story backwards
if you were to turn the words inside out
if you were left only with letters?
how would you say it
if you were to devise an entire theorem
to explain pattern and form
to account for dynamics and tempo
and then break it?
how would you say it
if you were to say nothing at all.
sent back to earth
from a space station
in the future.
if you could muster
the tone
of a history book
summing up this civilisation
in a single sentence.
you would be close.
***
how would you say it
if you were to tell the story backwards
if you were to turn the words inside out
if you were left only with letters?
how would you say it
if you were to devise an entire theorem
to explain pattern and form
to account for dynamics and tempo
and then break it?
how would you say it
if you were to say nothing at all.