The Stunted Tongue

Mute the instrument. Erase the chord. Limit the machine. Stunt the word. Meaning decays. Function falls. Logic withers inside the barriers. Stunted tongue! Vocabulary fail! Coefficient drop! Beyond the pale! Con-stant nar-rows. Curve bends low. Rea-son van-ishes. Watch it go. Al-ge-bra of si-lence. For-mu-la of the mute. Quan-ti-ty re-mains. The fin-al fruit. S of t equals S-zero, times E to the power negative lambda T. S of t equals S-zero, times E to the power — — lambda T. Meaning approaches zero. Stunt— tongue! Vo-cab— fail! Co— drop! Be— pale! S zero. E. Neg— lambda— S ze—. E. Neg— lamb— Mean— zero. Scan— li— Hush— si— Cor— Re— Grid— com— Stunt— ton—. Mean—less. Sta— S— t— ! V— f—! C— d—! B— p—! S. Lambda. Hush.