kill your television

this television has come
for blood
stagnant and steaming
buzzing with the noise
of multiplying mosquitoes.

your eyes never close
their veins constricted
and pupils dilated
and the muscles
long forgotten
wasting upon themselves.

the commercials boom
ever louder ever louder
from the speakers long sense blown.
and the verbs reverberating
hypno-tonic seduction
and manufactured dreams.

and you have become
the somnambulist
drifting in and out
from one flashing screen to the next-
the white noise ever present
like a pulse inside your mind.

all caution abandoned
and warnings ignored
you are now the apathy
and all your hedonic escapism
and all your prime-time thoughts
exist only in your television.