We are TV. We are protocol,
       pixel plenery; cyber bursting

wrecked on destiny just to watch the stars; drooling apathy
fixated on a remote control catastrophe.

Long have you stared, orthicon-brained; exploding lux
frazzled electron beam implanted to receptors of degraded activity.

Your fingers a plight of numb energy.
Decoded anti-matter, your chanelled dreams

      locked on to midnight fantasies; after hours sex queens

leaking through watershed suburbia.

Even the clash of satellites scores signals in the sky
falling stars, you could almost touch them
                      be a part of.

But illusion fires cathode rays in your gimmick mind.
WE are nothing. We are TV. We are mind-shatter,
           1000 channels of snow-drift; hissing blizzard bullshit
like a banshee trapped behind the glass,
              poltergeist rap -

your eyes goggled to the dance of flickering screens
tapping buttons as therapy, swallowed
         by a couch unseen.

We're deciphering the message of the Gods, coaxial warlords
           fibre optic demons that flizz through the flick of an ON switch.

All brains on standby - now we march to the rule of Reality TV
   of endless chatshow presenters, daytime trash
             and late night gimmick-loaded commercials; pseudo-porn

for the salacious libido and lackadaisacal youth.

We are the nexus between Star Trek and the next generation
of paunched couch cotton-woolers.

WE are the eyes concentrated to a blurb of bloated images; rich celebrities
          in the camera dazzle of a media witchhunt, noosed

to a slow-death of watching paycheck ridiculous sports players
and million dollar teethed movie actors (and actresses, and animals...)

we are the Nations of lazy, junkfood laments and waistline crazy
the lounge room lizard baking in the heat of an enclosed room.

      We cling to this pseudo life, a wall of plasma living
            where our blood clogs (clots to jaundice eyes without life)
                   like a deformed fetus
            in a 45-inch womb.
 

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