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Wednesday 30 November 2011

Ode to Telephones

A skewed and skewing instrument this,
poor, underdeveloped and weak
as most things technical tend to be,
made for uni-dimensionality,
just voice.
but communication
is about context,
the pieces of sky falling around us,
wind in the hair that is sentence and thought,
leaves made of earth, made of ambience
                                           and a teeming metropole,
gaze,
the texts sans word and metaphor,
gesture,
the play of fingertips, lips and such
and silence of the proximity
has eloquence beyond compare
than silence of distance.
telephones are useful things
for the 'now' if not 'here'
among human beings
separated by mountain and sea,
not for us,
no.

[from the collection 'The Underside of Silence', shortlisted for the Gratiaen Award 2008]

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