Dave Fox: The Man Who Spoke Through His Ears

By DAVE FOX
Los Alamos

The Man Who Spoke Through His Ears

The man who spoke through his ears
Had been listening for years and years.

It was discovered by his parents
When as a child he learned to speak
That his larynx would play back
Through his ears

The incredible leaks
Of all he’d ever heard
Throughout his listening,
But non-speaking years.

Thus, he became the official recorder of record,
With no flaws at all,
Of all the truths, half-truths, lies,
And tales too tall.

Not only the official recorder,
But the official play-backer, too.
For there was never any difference
between what he had heard

And the words his larynx
Played flawlessly back
Through his ears,
Word for word.

And so those who’d
Have the record read otherwise
Were plain out of a luck
Or even a job,

When trying to falsely report,
Recharacterize, or stain
The faithful replay of the only refrain
Of what’d really been said,

When the man who spoke through his ears,
Said what’d been said.

LOS ALAMOS