Hagar's Jewels
You see before you a series of words, Each word being pulled from the fire and Then hammered like totemism into a new shape: This was the author’s objective. cl ngcl cn... (Nobody else has figured it out?) c kxtan dtx. gx. ngcl .gxs, ngcth .xmdl (How many billions of ants?) cn cl ;t vzlck, kx.t d,byx;mk (How many marks tallied the shoreline?) Formed from letters, the words themselves could unlock the message, And the goal was to trace the origin of language, To find what existed in the beginning Before it was conquered and commanded And shaped into immovable type and text. g;l ;tbxt, ,sl, jchvm,k ngcl xvn - /v,lncxt r;md (I saw a movie made by an amatuer) ;tbgx. ng, r;csr;t fvln ngm,. ; z;id;h, xu,m ng, j,ti, (How do you spell amatuer? Keep them on their towes and mispell it! You can't cast a mis-spell." ;tk c j,,s scd, c ;r hxcth nx kc,w In fields they gathered the fragmented scraps of smelted iron...