The Virus
"Language is a virus from outer space, and hearing your name is better than seeing your face."
-- Laurie Anderson
Among the dirty looks,
the angry letters you
are an oasis
a pud
a disembodied Glaswegian
voice, garbled by the machine
the voice of a poet
an Ewok
reply, extinguished
we are 90% insane
smothered by nothing,
Freud, and Sartre
clinging to data, corrupted.
(quote above is from "Difficult Listening Hour" on the album United States, Parts I-IV)