First words from a spent europa minor pad.
Erasure occurs by automatic repetition
of the strike of an errant sign
the second hammer blow presses
the erasing tape against the unwanted fraction
and so absorbs the printed ink
and lifts it from the fibres.

A trace of the signal is left
imprinted upon a transparent ribbon.

When unwound
these narrow reels
reveal an aleatoric procession.

The whole constitutes an involuntary.

Delivered from accident
and reminiscent of glossolalia,
a sequence granting limited comprehension
teasing decision, sidestepping choice
vacillating at the lip of
a neologue's tickertape,
ursprache parody,
before collapse into discrete tongues.

But we had the presence of mind
to take bloodword samples.