Fwd: Re: Teleshout

Thomas savage <tsavagebar@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:34:50 -0700
From: Thomas savage <tsavagebar@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Teleshout
To: WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu

Very good.  Has anyone written a poem yet about how cell phones have eliminated the idea of privacy inasmuch as, at least in a large city, one hears people's private lives spilled out into the air as they walk down the street talking on these devices?  By the way, what is a "naira"?  It is a word I haven't encountered before.  Regards, Tom Savage

Obododimma Oha <obodooha@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

Teleshout

(or Demobilized by the Mobile)

 

I

At last we've got the talk

The talk raging after the talker

Streetways, or hidden lovetones

At last a dumb country is talking

 

Talkshops, and your naira burns

Aims, teas, envelops of dread

When the passions are loudest

 

At last, we're not the least

In the chinamart

Of booming wirelessness

We glow that we don't grow techs, demobilized

By the mobile shout

 

 

 

 

II

 

Networks & teleshouts

An ancient town is learning

A new witchcraft in pointing voices

Without pointing hands

 

Phonetics without phone ethics

The pleasure of getting & forgetting

Where you are

Who you are

What you are

So the talk unwraps you to the world

 

---- Obododimma Oha

 

 

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Obododimma Oha

PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric)

MSc (Legal, Criminological, & Security Psychology)

Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, & Discourse Analysis
Department of English, University of Ibadan

&

Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies

University of Ibadan, NIGERIA

 

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Obododimma Oha

PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric)

MSc (Legal, Criminological, & Security Psychology)

Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, & Discourse Analysis
Department of English, University of Ibadan

&

Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies

University of Ibadan, NIGERIA

 

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