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THAT SPEECHLESS GREEN MAN INSIDE A CYBORG  ↗



SOLSTICE  ↗


Listen

>>>Big FIRE BALL
The big FIRE BALL ↗

Here
Blue small
Blue bottom ball

Look in the moon and wait
Look all that moon ↗

Solstice FIRE

Men dance-ING with inside monster  ↗
>> 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
The cold secret of wilderness
>> 1 - 0 - 0 - 1 ↗


Please
>>> Open mouth CAREFUL  ↗
Talk-ING mouth  ↗
>> AH  ↗
Talk-ing monster  ↗
>> AH - B - B - AH

>> Slap, jump, walk, run
Hands up, head down
>> Foot-(s) PLURAL, like
hammer-(s) PLURAL, inside a FIRE

PARADISE  ↗

>> 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
tree-(s) PLURAL
Forest on the hilltop
>>  Rock, nest, flat rock
Apple, peach, pineapple, tree

Apple  ↗
Banana
Carrot
Dog  ↗
Egg
Fruit
Grapes
Hill
Ice
Juice
Kiwi
Lemon
>>>> M&M&M&
>>>>>>>>>>> M&M&
>>>>>>> Oil  ↗
Peach
Question
Raisin
SSS
>>>> SSS
>>>>>>>>> Snake  ↗
Tomato  ↗
Umbrella
Vitamin
Watermelon
X
Yogurt
Z

SNAKE

SSS
>>>> SSS
Jump, chase
>> Run, place
>>>>> Fight, bite
Bite, Open And Eat, Snake
And Drink Inside >>>> SSS

Feel like jelly
Your name is KANZI  ↗

KANZI walk
KANZI talk  ↗
Broken big sick panzee  ↗

Gorilla, panzee, orangutan
Forest men of yesterday time  ↗

Open mouth careful
Talk-ING mouth.
Talk-ING monster  ↗

>> 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
>>>>>>> Pine cone
>>>>>>> Pine needle
Scrubby pine nook

>>>>>>> Burrito, banana
Banana burrito  ↗
In the marshmallow FIRE  ↗

Eat hot dog
Chase a squirrel
Think a cat
Tickle a turtle
Bite a bunny  ↗
Slap a snake
>>>  Until it break


ARCHITECTURE NOW  ↗

Inside the log cabin
colony room, criss cross corners,

Hilltop, house, swimming pool
group room and middle test room  ↗
Lookout point, up here!
Some monsters are down there:  ↗
Outdoors, close to the trailer and the tree house

Walk outdoors with a LIGHTER
Make a FIRE with the LIGHTER  ↗
>>>>>>> Small rock hits
>>>>>>> Small rock break to make a knife,
Tools of that eloquent savage  ↗

PLAY-YARD

>>>> Play,
Balloon, balloon, jump, keep-away  ↗
>>>> Play, put, paint
>>>>>>> Throw, tickle, touch
>>>> Pretend, point, pee  ↗
That is the dance of the hairy

>>>> Play-ING to pretend
To be that eloquent cyborg

>>  > Open mouth careful
Talk-ING mouth.
Talk-ING monster

>>>>>>>>Touch, me  ↗
Touch the rock
Touch, foot, hand, head, hot
Touch the flat rock
>>>>>>>>Electric shock  ↗

Cold hand-(s) PLURAL
>>>>>>>>>>>>Swelling tummy. Medicine
>>>>>>>>>>>>Swelling tummy. Vitamine  ↗

SUE’S OFFICE

You listen the solstice fire dance  ↗

Austin
Bill
Chow
Clara
Duane
Elikya
Jon
Liz
Mary
Matata
Nyota
Panbanisha  ↗
Rob
Sherman
Sue  ↗

In Sue’s office
The light-(s) PLURAL of the solstice
Many dance, some drink  ↗
>>>>>>>>>>>.>Lemo&m&m&m&ade  ↗
Coke and many vitamin-(s) PLURAL  ↗
All dance, no hairy
You different
You domestic forest man

You want Sue
You like Sue
> You want to do Sue
You want to drink Sue  ↗
It is your secret
Hide-ING here, in observation room  ↗
Like the snake
>>>>>>>>>>>                        >You want Sue to break

You open Sue’s office
You feel the light-(s) PLURAL of the solstice
Many dance and many drink  ↗

Easy baby.
Sugar baby.  ↗

>>> Pretend, point, pee
That is the dance of the hairy  ↗

Men quiet in Sue’s office
You have a rock knife  ↗
Tool of the eloquent savage

>>> Open mouth CAREFUL
Talk-ING mouth.
Talk-ING monster  ↗

Cold kiss  ↗

Austin, Bill, and Chow
Throw an Apple, a Ball and Chalk

Your arm break.
Red juice on the fridge
>>>>Hurt.
Cold hand-(s) PLURAL
Hot, hurt  ↗

Austin, Bill, and Chow chase
You run
>>>>Bathroom, bedroom,
colony room, criss cross corners,
>>>>observation room  ↗
You run
>>>>Throw a rock,  ↗
You run
throw a flat rock  ↗
>>>>Electric shock  ↗

Cold hand-(s) PLURAL
Hot, hurt


SOLSTICE #2

Back to the forest  ↗
Back to before  ↗

Look in the moon and wait
Look all that moon



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A poem written in Yerkish, an artificial language developed for use by non-human primates. The language employs a computer-based keyboard whose keys contain lexigrams, symbols corresponding to objects or ideas. The language was made famous by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, a psychologist and primatologist most known for her work with two bonobos, Kanzi and Panbanisha, investigating their linguistic and cognitive abilities.
The poem also makes links with the folkloric figure of the WILD MAN during the winter solstice ritual. The vegetal Green Man is a mythical figure that appears in the artwork and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands.




 

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