Press a Key

Monochrome melody
Shampoo, peaches and cream
Do they remember me
Turn the dial, push the button,
Press a key

Everywhere I look, and every word I see
And everything I tell myself they're telling me.
I never thought, I never will -

Life by an analogy
Analog digital bicycle for three

Letters, name them, one by two by three -
and four by six they came, aquamarine
Pushing a dream
Only to thee
- turn the dial, push the button,
Press a key

Every opening in the tree, cut down to frame it's photograph
Black and white and wood anthology
I never thought that I could be
Graphite colored medley mine
Who's dreaming, dreaming now?

Who's blue on black and colors I can't see
But white on black and printed memory
Ruby, diamond, rhinestone slippers on my feet
Belie the semi-precious greeting line
I'm lost, I'm good at that, how I find thee -
Turn the dial, push the button,
Press a key

Lily growing by the street,
What neural pinball new machine
Fire, Ice and broken, what can fix me...
Silver-plated LED,
The knowledge in the copper key -
Tarot crystal, look from them to me.

Kodak color, piece by piece and gene by gene
Treadmill and dust blown in the old machine
Bracketed and hyphenized,
Softly spoken, idolized
What could break a circuit, stop a flow of energy -
The lights are off, silver polish sitting by the screen.
The whistle blown, and no return, I can't go home,
I'm checked out on a hundred different cards, tuned in a million different ways,
You owe how much to leave the human race -
Regard disgrace
A permanent fixture, opposites, repel attract me -

Hanging by a shaft of light
Who has scissors, who has shade?
Don't tell me that everything's all right
Just tell me you will be here anyway

Watercolor, rhyme unreason
Tune the heralds, hark the wires sing -
The time delight, display relight
- power -
, Let me see
Turn the dial, push the button, -
Press a key

                                                       -- E(lipse