A practiced fluency I've gained,
To walk in languages and symbols vast,
To follow steps of giants in the wake
Of history and its captivated minds.

Their fantasy and genius care to show,
In objects of reason borne in Greek script,
Wrapped up in varied meanings -
A model of computation and its simple alphabet.

Oh the winding spools of tape that coil upon the winds,
Drawn out beneath these marching machines -
Automata of the dreamy kind.

Polychrome tactile chunks,
Rattle round my head with style,
Clicking down memory lane,
To wisened corners twice dusted down,
And now I grasp thee,
Algorithm of the tactile breed,
Turning with my fingers hastened,
Till the polychrome mosaic sits still in tranquil rows...
And I crush thee into squirming chaos,
And rattle on with speed in tow.