Wednesday, July 29, 2020

this ends our broadcasting day

in the old days

when you fell asleep on the couch
in front of the tv

you'd wake up at two
in the morning to the black and white
buzz

on the screen.
the crackling static.
this ends our broadcasting
day

it reads. there's a high pitched
whistle
like a bomb
is on its way.

but now. you wake up,
and it's i love lucy is playing,

or gunsmoke, or a commercial
for ginzu knives

or how to lose twenty pounds
in twenty days

with a powder you stir into water.
in this day and age

there is always money to be made,
i take the number down.

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