Letters are weird.
They’re just symbols, really.
They just represent things;
things like ideas and sounds.
What do ideas sound like?
What if I were to write an idea like this:
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS?
How would you read that?
What does this idea sound like?
Does it sound as if the hissing tongue
of hot oil is licking at the lips of tempered steel?
Or do you pronounce every individual letter,
sound for susurrus sound,
as if a soft, plastic pinwheel is
lightly brushing the cheek of a child?
and these are just letters telling you so.
But I wonder: what does it sound like?
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