Television scares me. <br />It frightens me silly. <br />Our best known channels transmit <br />The worst of human disasters <br />Comets hurtling towards earth <br />Mega-quakes. Mega-tsunamis, <br />Tornadoes, and generally the <br />End of this earth. <br /> <br />Television stations seem to love this carnage <br />Mixed together with the atrocity of war and starvation <br />The fear factor reaches out <br />And startles us. <br /> <br />To add a touch of the macabre <br />We are told by experts unknown to most <br />When and where this will all happen <br />' The Rapture ', cry the tv believers <br />' You must be born again ', they reply <br />With a knowing grin. <br /> <br />Saddened, I turn to my books <br />Of Ginsberg, Leary and Kerouak <br />Lean over and turn the damned thing off.<br /><br />willow moon pearce<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-luminous-eye/
