Who will Watch My TV When I'm Gone?
Who will Watch My TV When I’m Gone?
Who will watch my TV when I’m gone?
What will happen to its green circuitry?
I spent so many years
In it’s pearlescent glow
Just like they all wanted me to,
The people in my TV.
Armies of people
With cameras
And make up
And schedules
Small businesses
Small Cities
Pitched up for a weekend or a month
With so much electricity.
All for me
To watch on my energy saving 34” garage sale Dyanex.
Who would’ve thought
A peasant like me
Could have so many jesters
At my disposal?
An infinite parade
Of the most talented nobodies
Your eyes have ever seen—
And that’s just the smaller productions.
Oh the Big Budget!
Years of work
From hundreds of lives
Pressed down into a few glorious hours
Leaving so many to wonder
How the heck do these things make money?
But here they are
Brilliant
Shining
Distractions
To have and to hold
Till death
Do I part.