Not tonight, Netflix
Netflix, I will not watch you tonight
I wanna spend the evening hungry
I wanna be a pioneer without WiFi
I wanna be a cowboy without a harmonica
I wanna be a pine tree without the sun
Attuned to the emptiness of a night
You give me endless choices
Your shows pique my dopamine
You embrace my eyes with episodes
You are a safe addiction to the lonely
You keep the walls from closing in
You ask me to feed from your body
But, who consumes whom?
Should my eyes drink your distractions?
Or is it the screen that eats my solitude?
Cowboys do not hunger for seasons
They don’t hunt pixels of panthers
What then do predators like me watch?
Panthers do not subscribe to Netflix
What then do pure hunters dream of?
Do they wish for an end to their hunger?
Do they wish to be like pine trees
Every day, they’ll drink the sun
Unlike me who'll not subscribe
Netflix, I’ll keep you off tonight
I’ll hide the remote control just to see
A night without the Great British Baking Show
A night to be a pioneer without a laptop
A night without endless prey to a panther
A renegade on the plains without Wifi
I’ll go to bed dreaming of cowgirls
We can tune out tv all night
Lassoing Netflix and Prime tv, too
Pine trees know overconsumption
The sun ever out of their reach
Cover the canopy, turn off the WiFi
I’m a cowboy without Netflix tonight
I’m a pirate withholding my rum
Disquiet in mind with a murderous hunger
Like a thirsty tree without sunlight
Ravenous till it’s bedtime
Loneliness will be here the next morning
Netflix, what choice do I have?
Sunlight pales in your comparison
This cowboy will return to your bright lights
A little bit disillusioned by the black screen
The experiment in wisdom flickering
Till I tune in tomorrow
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