That Boob Tube

by Kevin T McEneaney

How often do you worship your TV?

Do you adore news, sports, or movies?

How many stations do you find obnoxious?

Do you watch wrestling, boxing, or gambling?

Are you attracted to sitcoms or game shows?

What about top-chef cooking competitions?

Do you fill out surveys about what you watch?

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My maternal grandfather put his right foot shoe,

size fourteen, through the tv screen

when Jackie Robinson was tagged out

while standing straight on second base

when I was but five years old

and Ebbits field was littered with debris

from outrage at the injustice.

Do you have a relative who

who found injustice on TV?

Kevin T McEneaney

Author of The Enclosed Garden, Longing, and other books