busted television with adjectives (acrylic on plexiglass)

under the bridge              
set in the monotony              
of grey mud-slung tires              
jettisoned branches              
month-old socks and milk cartons              
I discovered an abandoned television              
alien and outlandish              
protruding rays of wormtangle wire        
graced
with gloriously useless knobs.          
even without the plug it was electric              
bright              
lit the space about it              
pulled together all of the under-bridge              
made a welcome room of it              
but still held a distance              
seductively threatening  
flashing a jagged tube-shard smile              
singular          
divergent.          
             
beneath the bridge              
I thought of you.