Imagine there’s this red shiny button, with no label on it… do you push it? Or not? Even if you don’t know what it does.
See lately, I’ve found myself pushing buttons. Lots of buttons. All the buttons that we must push…
Including but limited to, my own and yours. For example:
I get up, and hit the alarm, first thing, snooze is on, twice or three times AT LEAST I’m gone back to sleep, to push that button again maybe catch another wink. Flip the lights. Then push a series of buttons and knobs, facets, electronics and different kinds of tabs, showered, dressed and ready to brave the street. I unlock the car with a button chirp, jump in the seat, ignition switch and hit the sun roof, then radio, then gps, then reverse, lights, mirror angle, gas action, and we’re down the highway bend.
Across a bridge, pusha button to pay the toll, my mother calls, do I answer the phone? Or click ignore?
Push the button to the gate at work; a code to enter, buttons to remember, systems of order and cognition, passwords to recall, and change as one forgets, don’t we all? Tapping the keys all day, buttons and letters and numbers all in array, combing through pages and emails online, I hit the send button, often to soon, I’ll admit it. I’m hot on the buttons, pulling the trigger out of impulse, and release.
Turn on the fan
Turn down the music, turn it back up again.
Microwave your lunch and then the copy machine parades it’s multiverse of button wizardry all afternoon.
Hit the lock button on the bathroom door, which sometimes I forget, yeah that’s happened before. You want more buttons, we got more in storage…
I am so tired, of fucking pushing buttons, and of people pushing mine – will we ever just chill the fuck out, let the buttons rest for a time?
Yes, maybe, just maybe I’ll let you push my buttons a little, on purpose, if you’re nice, but don’t rush it, until I trust it, otherwise you won’t be pushing it twice.
Pushing buttons…
Clock out.
Wrap it up.
Take it home, I’m done,
But not before
I reset the buttons back for tomorrow’s pushing some more.
<3,
MissCompissed
Miss Conception 