for C.                 
                                        d, undrilled
                                     rock
    Had it been
wanted                       how had  
     to contain                   the addendum
                                  reached its
            and                          receiver
     for how long?         
(high notes
we could not ask       of cithara
         much                         played
   of finitude                     until silence
                                     calls)

and had not wanted
          any more           but pledge
                                              a vow
              a vow                    to language
   to make                 as work
a graphic of                     
            culture                   lines
                                   enabling
       strabismus                   attention
 to the fall     
             to stress           and less
                                             to tone            
     a seventy-percent
 increase
          in poetic             would generate
   productivity                 eighty-five
                                            thousand
              is                 six-hundred
       technical                 and ninety-four
     language                more lines
             language?  
                                        a troper
  emerges out               of a choir stalls
an area
                                          tries not
                                     to obscure itself
an orchestra                cries out
  a protracted ‘A’                   heard
                                      as an ‘Ah’
or sigh
                                              to find
     imperfect rest
  in language                   is harder
                                         than to find
       mp.                            unrest

                                in thought hence
improvocations
          to improvise             mf.    
 one’s provok
    to be added
added to                          the phonemes
     or to become         
  a mark                       and enjoy it

       (hum of
a bass clarinet     We sing
   following                   to feel the
           the tin                        pulses
tones of                              of community
    a honky-tonk)     
                                      to be
                                                                          added