Keys strike wood! Rain hits keys!
Typewriter drifts! Storm don't cease!
Oak porch groans! Machine holds fast!
Lightning writes! Thunder casts!
Oak porch groans under midnight weight
Quercus roots hold fast through storm's hate
Typewriter slides on rain-slick planks
Keys hammer wet paper to ranks
Rain falls hard like piston blows
Thunder shakes the floorboards low
Machines don't feel the cold or fear
Only strike when dawn draws near
Keys in rain! Strike again!
Wood and wire! Rust and grain!
Typewriter drifts! Storm don't break!
Words hold fast for dawn's own sake!
Mossy keys stick slow with dripping sap
Sphagnum drinks the thunder's clap
Ribbons fray on cellulose skin
Ink bleeds out where lightning's been
Rain falls hard like piston blows
Thunder shakes the floorboards low
Machines don't feel the cold or fear
Only strike when dawn draws near
Keys in rain! Strike again!
Wood and wire! Rust and grain!
Typewriter drifts! Storm don't break!
Words hold fast for dawn's own sake!
Xylem drinks the sky's raw flood
Phloem moves the sap like blood
Stomata open wide to catch
Each drop that falls on latch and hatch
Rain falls hard like piston blows
Thunder shakes the floorboards low
Machines don't feel the cold or fear
Only strike when dawn draws near
Keys in rain! Strike again!
Wood and wire! Rust and grain!
Typewriter drifts! Storm don't break!
Words hold fast for dawn's own sake!
Roots grip deep in clay and stone
Typewriter writes what wind has known
Paper pulp returns to tree
Letters etched in lignin free
Silence grows in cellulose veins
Photosynthesis fuels the chains
Carbon fixed in lignin walls
Storm can't break what nature calls
Go strike hold fast through the blast!
Keys don't break! Keys don't bend!
Roots hold strong! Storm will end!
Keys in rain! Strike again!
Wood and wire! Rust and grain!
Typewriter drifts! Storm don't break!
Words hold fast for dawn's own sake!
Keys in rain! Strike again!
Words remain! Words remain!
Typewriter rests on oak porch grain
Dawn breaks dry on keys and rain