Renovate like you're on The Block
Sing like you've got talent
Dance like you're with the stars
Let Sunrise give you a Kochie enema
Then blow it out your arse
Let the Bold and the Beautiful
Set the template for your relationships
Let Neighbours distract you
From those who actually live next door
May Today Tonight teach you
The same lessons they did the day before
Watch The Project and Can Of Worms
Because you need to be more informed
Become the blank slate upon which
Capital can write its epistle to the rich
Making you dumber makes them money
It would be a joke if it were funny
But it's not
In the end we will find
TV teaches us nothing more
Than a funhouse mirror
One of the greatest inventions
Of our time has been turned against us
Capable of enlightening millions
It now numbs us into acceptance
Sells us shit we don't need
Including ill informed opinions
Idealised bodies and greed
Crack cocaine for insomniacs
And those with low self esteem
Watched a sixteen year old girl
Chew dirt on My Weird Obsession
She had obviously been weaned on TV
Where fame is the drug of choice
Get your fifteen minutes any way you can
Without it life is meaningless
An existentialism of sorts
As if Sartré had eaten Nietzsche
And shat out a shiny Warhol
TV is the ultimate immanent surface
It has staged a bloodless coup
It both killed God and replaced the need
In one fell swoop
© shaun patrick green 2013
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