Excellent prose poetry Word Games : Television by estory

Turn on the television. Sit back. Relax. You don't have to leave your chair To travel through Brazil or China, Dance in a discoteque, Watch a baseball game, Go shopping, Even go to church. You can record things To play back at your leisure, Stopping the action with the pause/still button When you see something you like, Or make the volume as loud as you want, Scan through the channels in a matter of seconds In order to get to where you want to go. You can't wait to get home To watch your favorite shows, See what's on the news, Or what's going on with the weather In between all those commercials. You sit there watching, Hour after hour, Your eyes the light Of far away places Like a chair wanting to be an electric light, Or an airplane or that man Kissing that girl in that black and white movie. Author Notes This is a prose poetry piece very much in the style of Jack Anderson, who influenced me in that time while this was written. It also contains elements of Seamus Heaney's exploration of the relationship of the music of words with the actions they represent. In the end, it is reliant on images to create the atmosphere of wishing you were somewhere else. estory

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