Telestrips

You were a shape-shifting terror
Chasing time 'round the talking table
Through plastic walls, the abstract world
Coasting on high as the royal curious one

As if it could be more obscene
You willed yourself inside the screen

History, fantasy
Falling around the child
Glorious lunacy
Kaleidoscopic cries
Misery, sympathy
Tarry or stand aside!
Televised ecstasy
Color across our eyes!

You were a strange interference
Twisting up frowns as the morals crumbled
They switched the dials to slow you down
Youth's prism dashed, you recalled reality's wall

And grew up fast, a libertine
Some harmless trysts, no lesson gleaned

History, fantasy
Falling around the child
Glorious lunacy
Kaleidoscopic cries
Misery, sympathy
Tarry or stand aside!
Televised ecstasy
Color across our eyes!