What is a Wurlitzer
1 The state pushes a button & you weep in your cereal.
2 Your life plays its images. The state plays the sound.
3 Sometimes they put the quarter in, sometimes you do.
4 La la la communist, sings the Wurlitzer, & the hairs on the back of your soul stand up.
5 It was the Pomeranians, says the Wurlitzer, & Down with the Pomeranians, you answer, squinting.
6 The state cues the winds to hide the subsonic cash register in the background.
7 Wurlitzer, howitzer, microprocessor, helicopter, slavecatcher software, ker ching.
8 The room of state machines overheats unless the Wurlitzer wind blows through.
9 Trumpets! & your longings & hatreds & running routes sort into columns.
10 Violins! pluck your heart out & replace it with an arousable™ chip.
11 The quarter is essential. Who cares who inserts it.
12 The money blows through the instrument & it sings.
