The Crystal Set Radio
My father and I discussed making one
but I don't think that we ever did.
Today, the name "crystal set" seems exotic,
like the crystal skulls Aztecs are said
to have carved, but are mostly modern fakes.
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Ha! an archaic term my physics master Mister
Barnett used: "steam radio"! Faint
voices emanated from darkness
amid scratchy, whiny noise
-- they might have been
from Alpha Centauri --
as I endlessly twiddled the knobs.
Christopher T. George
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