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Driven To Distraction and Destruction

Must I hear the word "cool "one more time Blaring from movies, TV in a time called prime The only thing prime about prime time TV Is its effort to seek out just how annoying it can be Words like COOL, SEXY, TEENAGER are like the itch of a flea Proving the media have a lexicon of vocabularies Small as a headhunter's shrunken dried up trophies They'll sometimes stretch words in an oblongata Such as cool rhyming with KULL, KOO-ULL , it doesn't matter There are commercials foisted on watchers of the tube Expounded in sincerity by some whey-faced boob Calling on issues like curing failure to perform an animal urge But animals would shake heads that on this people splurge Its quite clear now why Elvis once blew up a TV Things that are shown do cause urges real as these After this act of destruction of a TV takes place It might cause a payback one did not anticipate The small glass pieces on the floor begin shouting loud as can be SEXY, KULL ,KOO-ULL, TEENAGER they scream endlessly Don't you know that's their only vocabularEE?

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Date: 7/3/2016 2:14:00 PM
Perfect! Love it! Watching less and less. If it wasn't for Lawrence Welk (Lord, now I understand my parents though they are long gone) and a few other shows, I would never turn the damn thing on. Great write!
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Elizabeth Smith
Date: 7/4/2016 12:43:00 AM
Same with me. If Elvis actually was guilty of shooting his TV I can see why. Thanks for your comments Joe. Carol Burnet where are you!
Date: 7/3/2016 1:50:00 PM
What a pleasure to read. Great fun, got a few sniggers out of me.
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Elizabeth Smith
Date: 7/5/2016 9:02:00 AM
I also wanted to thank you for your suggestions Scott. Until I started with Poetry Soup I did not iknow anything about poetry in any form …and still I'm not very knowledgeable but I'm learning slowly
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Elizabeth Smith
Date: 7/3/2016 2:02:00 PM
Thanks a lot Scott. You know how it is … sometimes you get the urge to throw something at the TV. :-))
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Elizabeth Smith
Date: 7/3/2016 1:59:00 PM
Thanks a lot Scott. You know how it is … sometimes you get the urge to throw something at the TV. :-))
Date: 7/2/2016 5:51:00 PM
I enjoyed this fitting fit, there is much sarcasm fodder on TV and you used it well. I enjoyed the read ... CayCay
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Elizabeth Smith
Date: 7/2/2016 11:00:00 PM
Thanks so much CayCay. Sometimes I just get fed up to here with the dregs on TV

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