The rest is NOT silence

(Yet to be published is a birthday mesostic in which Cage pays tribute to Cunningham's cock and ass!)

—from Alex Ross' "Searching for Silence" in the 10/4/10 issue of The New Yorker … John Cage and Merce Cunningham, being one of history's most notable homo pairings.


[a "mesostic," I mention, having been ignorant of it myself until now, being an acrostic in the middle, as (quoting from the article):

                   Much of our
             of borEdom
                   Toward talks in
         it misled Him
               diplOmatic skill to
place to place but Does it look
        at present Most
                fivE Iranian fishermen
                 cuTbacks would not

… hmm, and then again, maybe I can wait]