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 \nFlip-flop,tick-tock,ding-dong,everybody sing along,criss-cross,hip-hop,ping pong,that's the way,now with a,chit-chat,dilly-dally,shilly-shally,keep the beat,flim-flam,pitter-patter,riff-raff,sure,they duplicatebut more than that they shift the airflow back or down  \nin your marvelous mouth,that breeding pool for lots of germs,wet and warm,the primal swamp,and better watch out,floss and brush,rinse and spit,or many bad things,thrushor cankers,trench mouth,cold sores,herpes,gum disease,can really cut down on oral pleasure,but oh that pleasure,anal and genital,late to the dance,can never surpassthe joyous agenda always attending the tip of the tongue,flexible bundle of muscles extending off the mouth floorout through lips toward someone else or in through lipstoward someone else,no way,can’'t hold a candle,someone I know can hold a candle,prefers the scented,but don't expect any descriptors from me,no sirree,no pronouns either,make the picture work for you,as for pleasures the oral affords,the ice cream thingis lost on me,nice big bowl of sweet cold fat,but others'pleasure can give much pleasure,heres a kid  \nsmearing his face with a double-scoop cone,can't keep upwith its melt in the sun,or a gaggle of girls intently licking,eyes on each others'with looks that say,It doesn't get better,they may well be right,sad to think so,some will find out,or a vast St.Bernard enjoying a dish of vanilla with sprinkles,and that's just food,the original intake,okay the latecomerscan take in too,give them their due,while as for output  \nthere's really no contest,puking's no picnic and spitting's goodif you've coughed up phlegm or chew tobacco or suddenly hankerto demonstrate scorn,but on the ladder to pleasures superlativethese delights show fear of heights,there's always drinking,also smoking,but the big one,face it,is the pleasure of speaking,what can compete with orality,nothing,no one's saying  \nwriting's subordinate or merely transcription of a spoken supreme,down deconstructors,but when you read or write things down,the brain's mirror neurons deliver small pulses straight to the mouth,so reading and writing both diddle the oral,whatever their statusin another ontology,but all of this is way off-track,not at all pertinent to what's on my mind.  \nStand clear of the doors.Digression's not a sidetrack.It's a faster train.  \nShit-show,reduplicant,that's how it started,though shit-shot's the onein line with above,yet shit-show still follows the vocalic pattern  \nof tense to lax,and that's where it's at,first you get tense,then you relax,ease the jaw lower to manage that o,tense then relax,the primary paradigmfor","cbCainHRxC5KSRlg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainHRxC5KSRlg","pdf",2748668,92,"English","# Hothead\n## Publication and bibliographic front-matter\n## Poem: oral pleasure, speech, and rhythm\n## Breath, mantras, and vocal patterns","[{\"question\":\"What kind of publication information is included before the poem?\",\"answer\":\"The document includes front-matter such as copyright, printing and production credits, Library of Congress cataloging data, and ISBN details.\"},{\"question\":\"What central theme does the poem emphasize?\",\"answer\":\"The poem repeatedly returns to orality—speech and the mouth—framing pleasure, bodily processes, and vocal rhythm around it.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the poem treat sound and rhythm?\",\"answer\":\"It uses onomatopoeia, repeating vocalic patterns, and rhythmic phrasing, then extends into breath coordination and mantra-like recitation.\"}]","Hothead - a poem - Stephen Cushman | PDF",1790689423,142]