soda_speak epitome of incomprehensibility Why I wrote soda_speak: existentially, I can't speak to the larger why (the larger why is WHY) but it means "so to speak" and I use it after a pun or when one thing sounds like another. 260407 ... raze we commune with cans of carbonated water, savouring the sweet secrets they've spent so long stowing in the gilded grooves of our tongues. we ask to know the future, however grim its grip may be. all we hear is the hissing of the past, the paint on its creased face cracked and crumbling, and the nascent night of now, with all the muted music its cupped hands can hold. what moves through us is more than fizz and fear. we swallow something that sounds like a sigh and catch the scent of smoke on our breath. flames have found a way to live on less. 260408 what's it to you? who go blather from