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First Television 1953
A wooden box with a test pattern
Coors beer, church keys,
Eisenhower on the side
Nixon in future attractions
B-movies which film by film
Became predictable
And we no longer
Held our breath
The calvary morphed into
The cavalry
And innocence was consumed
Like popcorn
Three days old.
Coors beer, church keys,
Eisenhower on the side
Nixon in future attractions
B-movies which film by film
Became predictable
And we no longer
Held our breath
The calvary morphed into
The cavalry
And innocence was consumed
Like popcorn
Three days old.
Published 3rd Feb 2023
Author's Note
I hate these damned categories. This poem is about the loss of innocence via the tube.
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