Around the corner

I bought it on film to watch tonight

but there's dust in the corners

I've got to get a new video recorder

and get my T.V. subscriptions up to date

there's cables crawling through the walls

viewing screens in kitchen, bedrooms, halls

game cartridges are ready

audio equipment updated

my life programmed into the home computer

now all I need is someone to share it with

think I'll call "select-o-mate"

ask them whose picking up the mess

of broken toys left behind

of broken lives lived in pantomime

of factory fun

new digits roll across T.V. screens

everyone trying to keep pace

new breakthroughs

life obsolete abounds

balance goes underground

everything is video

pictures old and jumbled

we're all such a small part

of a world we'll miss

still trying to understand all this

volunteering for the clean-up crew

before the layoffs at the puzzle factory