Sonnet to Watching TV
Another day’s haunting travail exceeds
frayed nerve expanses as inner drift yearns
to dull whirling mind howl and raucous screeds
in recurring migraine flashes that burn.
Acute mental ferment spills from the ears,
unheard feelings wrung, ousted, then erased,
so plugged-in remote signals might appear
primed for distraction in time’s broadcast space.
Into the void head words flood and thoughts gust,
supplanting numbness with rough emotions —
amore, umbrage, desire, fear and base lust
spawned on plasma screen of two dimensions,
Propped and pillowed, I yield my being
to medium that stems mortal bleeding.
Gregg SAPP is the author of the “Holidazed” series of satires