Now is the time for
all good men to come to the aid of their party.
The time is now for
all party men to come to the good of their aid.
The good time is now
for the aid of all to come to their party of men.
The party is good for
all time: Come now to the men for their aid.
Come to the party for
all good aids to time the men of now.
Aid the good time party
to come to the men, for all is of their now.
Now is the party for
all good men to aid their time of come.
Now is the party for
all good men to aid their time of come.
Aid the good time party
to come to the men, for all is of their now.
Come to the party for
all good aids to time the men of now.
The party is good for
all time: Come now to the men for their aid.
The good time is now
for the aid of all to come to their party of men.
The time is now for
all party men to come to the good of their aid.
Now is the time for
all good men to come to the aid of their party.
Larry Pike had a workman-like manner about him. If he said he
would show up next Thursday with a poem, he was there with two. His
poems are witty and pop and often erotic.
This poem is typical. Writing especially for the Phone
Event, he takes a well known line of prose originally composed for the
novice typist and turns it into a description of an orgy.
At the bottom of his page, he appended the directions: "This should
be recited mechanically. In the background there can be a click of
a typewriter perhaps. Perhaps, after the fourteen lines are read, they
can be repeated, echoed, as in an echo chamber."
Sensing that he was grouping the typewriter with the telephone answering
machine as a mechanical word device, I suggested we utilize a recent computer
development, the voice synthesizer and took the poem to Jim Minx, an early
computer enthusiast. He had a Votrax Human Voice Synthesizer, one
of the first, and he programmed it to say Pike's poem.
Larry liked the results.
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