The images streaming on TV are better

they don’t

talk back

they aren’t

avante garde Nail Art

they’re barred

from grey real estate

they can’t

erect unsanctioned billboards

they won’t

spit in cross winds

and picture in picture strictly up to me.

It’s a silk-free area

full of needled sow

void of virtual pets

minus personal lies

missing obligation

Its airbrushed projections an agreed upon deception

not individuated

ideologies comprising a global society for which

there is frankly no evidence…

so grand, though!

They need an E like venti latte, grande

A quest for constant audience

that rings more hollow

than donut holes

as spherical as a

sphincter

and kissably starred like that, too.

Host growing more obsolete by the day

not up…

Just like the baby that died in China

while its virtual sibling garnered all the attention

The one shipped stateside

stamped with the

tired trademark

although the death thing, you know,

made a DPI infant preferable in that instance.

©Karen Robiscoe