What a fix to be stuck on
A sea of remotes
Controlling their channels
(Channels really know
How to pull people in.
But not me. I just watch news.)
Piles and piles and stacks
Of remotes
Mangled up in cords
Around the main event:
The TV.
Back to that pile of remotes -
All different kinds & controls
There's a pink one
With polka dots or chicken pox
There's a swampy soggy one
A grey tomb-stony one
Etc., and whatnots
What to do with all them?
Control the tube, of course,
But they all do that
A little bit differently.
"To hell with this white noise"
I ****** up a chrome looking remote
Soapstone it wasn't
But cold cold cold still
I pressed the red button near the front
Blinked it didn't
But got stuck.
I just stared in frustration
For a long while, into that fuzzy screen.
And then
Out of the white noise
A gigantic chrome razor-hand
Came crashing through
Pulling me in.
May 27, 2012
May 27, 2012 at 4:01 PM UTC
What a fix to be stuck on
A sea of remotes
Controlling their channels
(Channels really know
How to pull people in.
But not me. I just watch news.)
Piles and piles and stacks
Of remotes
Mangled up in cords
Around the main event:
The TV.
Back to that pile of remotes -
All different kinds & controls
There's a pink one
With polka dots or chicken pox
There's a swampy soggy one
A grey tomb-stony one
Etc., and whatnots
What to do with all them?
Control the tube, of course,
But they all do that
A little bit differently.
"To hell with this white noise"
I ****** up a chrome looking remote
Soapstone it wasn't
But cold cold cold still
I pressed the red button near the front
Blinked it didn't
But got stuck.
I just stared in frustration
For a long while, into that fuzzy screen.
And then
Out of the white noise
A gigantic chrome razor-hand
Came crashing through
Pulling me in.
T.V. Time!
