Best Cathode Poems

Cathode Rays in the Darkness

Thelma Todd is on the Late Late Show,
Brought to the us by Kent cigarettes, which refines and
Refreshes with the exclusive Micronite Filter.
Her still tragic life in the steaming suburbs knows no past.
It is a sucking monster to which there are no...

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The joyous song and dance man

--- deceased and buried in the 1980s ---

suddenly now on the tv screen

in one of his old movies,

tripping "the light fantastic"

across the tap dance limelight stage.

Ars longo, vita brevis.*



A Latin translation of Hippocrates' aphorism from its original Greek, often translated...

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The past dreaming 
of the future 
Burnt out at last
Light pulsing into the cathode ray tubes 
the wires of difference machines 
process seconds, data, imagery 
From diseased 
To hidden desire that fire electric nights
Shallow dreams what will be 
Pass through nightmares of futures run
in future...

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