Friday night is coming fast
It’s only a few revolutions away
I can already see the lights
Of the video games
Flashing inside my head
Pacman Out Line Astrosmash
The numbers keep on rising
Just pop in a quarter
One player or two
Turn on to the microchip green

So let’s have a few tokes
And a couple of beers
We can drink to the future
Cause it’s already here
Just hop into my streamlined
Redesigned Z-28
Rocket down to the local bar
Listen to The Who
In quadrophonic sound
Where the Satisfiers of Alpha Blue
Sit chatting
With the scent of Oscar de la Renta
On their bodies and minds
Bathed in the glow of microchip green

Interest rates have started falling
They say the recession’s almost over
We’ve hit a new trend
There’s a light getting brighter
At the end of the Time Tunnel
Might just be able to reach it
If we can keep from blowing ourselves
Off the face of the planet
Let’s keep that light from turning red
With the color of microchip green

Then head over to the trust company
Open eight days a week
Start ourselves an RHOSP
Buy that house in the suburbs
In a couple of years
Where we’ll howl at the wolves of failure
Who tried to keep us down
Looking into the distance
Through a turquoise haze
To where the scrapers
Keep getting higher
Amid the technology of microchip green


© 1982
Inputted and revised © 2020

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02/09/2020

Author's Note: One of the main sub-themes in Enter Every System is that of colors. For example: Red, White and Blue, Atop the Central Yellow, To Pornography’s Daughter, Red, Burgundy Red, True Colours, Chameleon, etc. Camouflage also makes its way into some of the poems: Trouble, Battle of the Bulge, Dragonslayer, etc.

Posted on 02/09/2020
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