What I Learned From Television

When I was growing up,
I watched a lot
of television,
and I learned
how to spell "Kellogg's"
and that cigarette smoke
smelled like springtime
and I learned
that life
was like "Leave It To Beaver"
or maybe
"The Dick Van Dyke Show",
so later
the television
turned on me
and became some kind
of a monster,
like psychic TV
which was really
disturbing,
and then cable
gave us hundreds of channels
of next to nothing,
so, a little while ago,
I unplugged the cable,

and the television is off now,
and so,
I feel much better.