everything taken into account the
procedure should have worked as
a cipher germinating fluency more
signal without noise interference just
straight candor or even baby talk a
tinge of gallows humor given breath
& insistence to the point of fealty
for all concerned almost begging on
our knees the ability to recognize
tone of voice still spent years
writing code a cage of false
notes elliptical devices lessening a
sum of parts the want of breaks
open no precision dim lights
wobble could be invisible space-
craft we tell ourselves & continue