The Greater Than Symbol And The Hash

New letters across chests emblazoned

You're rewarded with high-5s and embraces

Seating banks are ripped from the theatres

To build forts and to build defenses

In the streets millions gather

Ignite documents and get warm from the

Ink of the burning alphabet

One million buildings crumble

New characters are found in the rubble

Dip the pen in the new ink

So what you write you erase

The stems and the sharers decay

The notes all fall from the safe

And the thumbs of lines see that you're up

Keep the music repeated and repeated

Breaths in and out, anticipate a clicking sound

And the boots on the ground are removed

So the feet dance through the motions of encoding that sound

Analogue mechanisms whir

As a million pins punch tiny holes in reams of tape

And as it breaks a syntax deforms

New letters across chests emblazoned

You're rewarded with high-5s and embraces

Seating banks are ripped from the theatres

To build forts and to build defenses

The hammer beats the ribbons into a rhythm

The greater than symbol and the hash

Become the dot and the dash