Robert Tilleard

RELIEF


 Such a simple idea, moveable type:
 I don’t have a single ‘ i ’, I have a lot.
 You don’t have one single ‘ u ’ you have many -
 Multiple types moving from line to line.
 The same character each made from one mould
 Changing places with many parts to play.
 And manhandled to make an impression
 So, issuing forth, one becomes many,
 Coming to some common understanding
 Which can be scattered to the far corners.
 Though lurking at the edges of the earth 
 Are Hydra’s many-headed dark monsters,
 Who, even before the world wide web, were
 Faking news and conspiracy theories.
 But with ‘ u ’ and ‘ i ’ in multiple forms,
 Like Heracles, we will defeat the beasts