the phonograph may(if it likes)be prophe
tic:for instance let me recount to you,in
Sapphics quite dissimilar unto A.Swin
burne’s the adventure
of Our Ezra,delver in mines strictly aes
thetic(short aes long as it happens by ex
ception)subjects,per what is loosely called a
Victor Victrola
—then right doggishly cocking one ear(bowwow)
our hero heard suddenly His Master’s Voice:
“O Ezra, dear Ezra,come home to us now
for the clock in the(yes)steeple strikes(Yes)Joyce”