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A Sticky Silence

A keyboard lays across my knees
like a sleeping lapdog,

The B and the K are sticky keys
that cannot bark
or pronounce their own function.

The keys are unstuck by pure alt control,
I have also trained them with a dog whistle.

Behind the plasma screen
Bach is barking
out of the mouth of a cello.

I wonder if I should wake up
the lapdog,
maybe
with a duet in B minus
for a K9 listener?

Copyright © Eric Ashford

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