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Driven To Distraction and Destruction

Must I hear the word "cool "one more time 
Blaring from movies, TV in a time called prime

The only thing prime about prime time TV
Is its effort to seek out just how annoying it can be
Words like COOL, SEXY, TEENAGER are like the
itch of a flea

Proving the media have a lexicon of vocabularies 
Small as a headhunter's shrunken dried up trophies

They'll sometimes stretch words in an oblongata
Such as cool rhyming with KULL, KOO-ULL , it
doesn't matter

There are commercials foisted on watchers of the
 tube
Expounded in sincerity by some whey-faced boob

Calling on issues like curing failure to perform an 
animal urge
But animals would shake heads that on this people 
splurge

Its quite clear now why Elvis once blew up a TV 
Things that are shown do cause urges real as these

After this act of destruction of a TV takes place
It might cause a payback one did not anticipate 

The small glass pieces on the floor begin shouting 
loud as can be
SEXY, KULL ,KOO-ULL, TEENAGER they scream
 endlessly 
Don't you know that's their only vocabularEE?

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Joe Dimino

Date: 7/3/2016 2:14:00 PM

Perfect! Love it! Watching less and less. If it wasn't for Lawrence Welk (Lord, now I understand my parents though they are long gone) and a few other shows, I would never turn the damn thing on. Great write!

Elizabeth Smith
Date: 7/4/2016 12:43:00 AM

Same with me. If Elvis actually was guilty of shooting his TV I can see why. Thanks for your comments Joe. Carol Burnet where are you!

Scott Thirtyseven

Date: 7/3/2016 1:50:00 PM

What a pleasure to read. Great fun, got a few sniggers out of me.

Elizabeth Smith
Date: 7/5/2016 9:02:00 AM

I also wanted to thank you for your suggestions Scott. Until I started with Poetry Soup I did not iknow anything about poetry in any form …and still I'm not very knowledgeable but I'm learning slowly

Elizabeth Smith
Date: 7/3/2016 2:02:00 PM

Thanks a lot Scott. You know how it is … sometimes you get the urge to throw something at the TV. :-))

Elizabeth Smith
Date: 7/3/2016 1:59:00 PM

Thanks a lot Scott. You know how it is … sometimes you get the urge to throw something at the TV. :-))

CayCay Jennings

Date: 7/2/2016 5:51:00 PM

I enjoyed this fitting fit, there is much sarcasm fodder on TV and you used it well. I enjoyed the read ... CayCay

Elizabeth Smith
Date: 7/2/2016 11:00:00 PM

Thanks so much CayCay. Sometimes I just get fed up to here with the dregs on TV