Divisions of the night Each calculated the same Staccatoed bursts of sound At regular intervals Random quotes stick in my brain βWhere is your favorite place to eat?β Limp beanbags lobbed at remotes in futile attempts to change reality. Fake drama as one non-sister complains to another that she will tell secrets to strangers but not to her family. But I am no stranger I follow her life hour after hour Her fake life in exchange for mine not lived except in flickering shadows. Another weekend wasted watching lives of the inane and ridiculous Which is still somehow better than watching mine