how frequently does the letter a appear in:
to professor john henderson, about my/his belly.
would be great to cut a fine figure.
swaying on my two pins.
uh huh? i’m listening, i say.
asking john for a hug.
with smoothing palm.
are you thinking about john now?
john henderson belly closes her eyes.
into one tumbling waterfall of cadences.
what about his ablatives, his hyperbatons?
belly schmoosh. his semantic analytics?
his patterns? his parsings? his epics?
his topsy turvey word order?
for words. his exploratory thematics?
she’s gone, lost in loin-louche.
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I counted forty-nine "a"s in that text.
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