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The Square Tube

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

You're either one of us, or you're not, right?

Sunday, April 29, 2012

The Square Tube

 

      Step right up folks!

      To a  world of scrambled brain escapes and soured chitlin burials
           A place where only the apathetic and lonely dwell
                And the Sterns and Springers play Powerball with your glazed eyes

     Where we can wander aimlessly across its deserts for years
          Looking for the enigmatic oasis of survival
               So that body and soul can quench its thirst with QVC and Infomercials

     Lures us to inactivity where cells lie dormant and synapse ceases
          Promises us a reality that has but drunkenness to offer
               Loads us on the assembly line of closed arteries and intellectual atrophy

     Ah, the square tube

     Momentary life for the pretenders
          Never ending opiates for the masses
               And inevitable lethargy for everyone

      "But wait!  There's more.!  Call us today and..."

 

 

 



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Reviewed on April 30, 2012
I'll take it ! It's on sale? well then, I'll take five! "SHE" has one? Make that ten! Wait! your sold OOOUUUT? Put me on the wait list I want 20 more......I'm sorry, I switched chanels, what did I buy?

Reviewed by pat medlin
Reviewed on April 29, 2012
i just talk about this...you on the otherhand have put it into such poetic words....kudos to you odin.

i feel the same about i phones chained and glued to the ears and eyes of people i used to be able to have intelligent conversations with...ear to ear...face to face. what sheep and 'follow the drum' people we've become.

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on April 29, 2012
I used to love Sci-fi channel till they started getting away from sci fi and getting into reality crap...now I get into history & discovery channels...least ways I learn something new...though I am on this square tubular thing more so anymore...
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Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on April 29, 2012
You nailed it, Odin. I gave up the square tube, neither cable, nor disc, or anything else. I haven't missed the talking heads and the stupid reality shows (I never watched one of them) or the talent stuff . . . Nothing, I have missed nothing. I have not missed the news, I get all the news I want, or need, on the World Wide Web, not the smiling stupid plastic banana heads who try to indoctrinate me. No, my news at least comes from someone I can respect.

You uncovered a monster with this one, my friend. I HATE television.


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