Human Cello
Curbed and carved is your Neck Cello to be plucked and hit Gritty Grab around the Back Golden Pegs and giddy Top Dirty F-Holes and dusted Fingerboard Don’t dabble on the fourth String Dilute —detach from the Floor Always my Plaything Aware and awake Adherent only to me — my Cello, my Everything
Cover art: Human Cello' — Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik performing John Cage's '26'1.1499 for a String Player', New York, 1965.
*The poem was inspired by this photo and cellos




Dirty F-holes 👀 I did not know they were called that 🤣. What a crazy photo and the poem pairs with it well!