With Hidden Noise

I am a teapot and this is my song.

I am award-winning and this is my song.

What genius decided we needed a fire engine now?

Maybe I’m a postindustrial bunny and this….

Look, big ears, this is MY song

and no one needs your rabbity bull around here.

I am an exchequer and this is my retinue.

No one knows precisely what I do.

Where to put the excess of speaking voice?

But Professor, there’s too much

nitrogen up there for any known life-form

to survive! I am the breasts of a starlet

and this is my lab coat. Did you say

lifeboat? Watch out for the nails

coming out the other side. I am

a liminal state and this is my program.

Misbegotten pang, open your oh.

Did you say sleeping voice?

We can no more invent ourselves

than the ticks of a clock can invent the clock.

Are you sure this is the way to go?

I am Walt Whitman but so?

Everyone’s Walt Whitman.

Clouds of unlimited portent.

Insert anecdote here.

The idea is to get the heart-rate up

and sustain it. What happened?

shouts the hero rushing into the study room.

Mung magph naagh, replies the heroine

still in her gag. Insert flap A

into slot A. X-rays inconclusive.

Want to hear me count to 1,000 by 17s?

Beep hexagonal, my puppeteer.

I hate your dog.

I am a 2-CD set of the world’s greatest arias.

No wonder no one gets nothing done.

Clearly we need a new filing system.

After a while it all sounds the same.

Saaaaaaammmmme.

Enter Fortinbras.

I am your waiter and this is your orchard.

This can’t be what I ordered.

Next question.

Now try it on your own at home.