Re: FLUXLIST: mesostic

[Rod Stasick]

On 2006 May 19, at 8:43 AM, Allan Revich wrote: n his early mesostics, Cage would simply write a word (usually a name) vertically down the page, with all the letters capitalized. Then, he would "fill in the blanks" and come up with a poem using the "spine" he had chosen. For Example (by the author):   the b Eautiful o Xen are ro Aming a Mong us op Portunity is be Laboring th Em I don't know where this example came from, but it is NOT a mesostic. Neither is Dawgs unfortunately. Neither one follow the rule of mesostics set forth by Cage. Rod --- Now playing: psi - The ___ who had begun his career as a useful ___ of the ___ court later became the ___ of ___ and the ___ of ___. Rotokas and Mura-Piraha have only 11 phonemes, the smallest on record.