can you reduce me to a shiver on a page? can you seduce me with a pixilated smile? would you still respect me if i were more than rhytme? you can be zero can you reduce me?
Copyright Arjuna Greist 2001
a tap of fingered code across a crowded mile
we are all speaking in code
we do not know how it was made
but we understand it all
or something more subtle, like a circle or a line?
and somewhere in between i take my chances
already i am wondering how you'll perceive my glances
like a muse who's writing in signature files
so small, so small
if you knew me linear before you knew my thoughts
would you still affect me if we carried out our garbage
in the streets, in the flesh, where it's harder to lie
oh, but here the truth comes easy as we take off our disguise
in the peripheral vision of the public eye
and i can be one
and then from there we'll figure out the probability
you'll be my hero, just picture me laughing
or will my abbreviation take up too much memory?
you know that i'm for entertainment purposes only
a raw piece of abstraction
or celluloid exposed
but underneath the subtext, we're all just feeling hungry
looking for a greasy frame of mind that's never closed
can you reduce me?
can you redu ce me?
can you reduce?