NaPM April 18, 2017

[dukealien]

Enhancements


Puts one in mind of a story,
doesn’t it?

Many days ago, in fact
almost all the days except the last few
a man who was pretty much still a monkey
hit a stone nearby with
a stone he had with him.

Quite a few of those days later
a second man who was just as much a monkey
started hammering, too
they noticed they were making something
neither of them had before
call it rhythm.

This kind of thing kept happening:
one brought melody
and another brought melody
and they found they had harmony
sound to sound, speech.

Then it all became more mixed
as the second monkey brought
speech to melody: song
speech to rhythm: poetry.

Each monkey brought little;
each took more away
(but lost some monkey-ness).
That story had a name
“Stone Soup.”