With this poem, Gillespie has created a sleek machine made of words— one that is a delight to operate and read. The cube structure of this six node hypertext (seven, if you count the title page), uses the title verb for each node as a transition for the next node. This economically clever structure to link to the next four possible pages make the user’s choice a meaningful one, and one that creates a logical flow between the pages. Its lines vary from Whitmanesque to Bernsteinesque in length and will leave you thinking about how we take language and poetry for granted.
Featured in Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2.
