#WritingPrompt: reality TV

Poetry: The Really Real

‘Singin’ out our life on stage / High enough to feel no pain’ — Panic! At the Disco, God Killed Rock And Roll

Photo by Amal George on Unsplash

For your viewing pleasure!
See the lives of the high
and the low
definition played out
on your screen
stream
it today!

Do you want to laugh?
Want to cry?
Want to see some loser try
to win
again and again
only to be
knocked down so many
times
that they’re barely
breathing,
and they just can’t take this
mind-numbing, becoming,
unceasing, pain…

Ahem

Do you wanna see some
kooky jobs
as done
by life’s genuine
larger-than-life
characters?
Do you wanna see a hundred
per cent
real feud between two friends
who are totally
not only
friends
because we cast them in this show?
No?