And now another poetic jewel from TMV’s favorite, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet:
Alfred Prufrock measured his life in coffee cups. Today, a great many Americans have a different day measure–the tube.”
My TV Week In Verse
The TV is my calendar,
I use it to measure my days;
It helps to pass the empty times,
On my cupcake life it’s the glaze.The week’s fun starts on Sunday nights,
Desperate Housewives comes into view;
Suburbanites’ multiple angst revealed,
Anguished sex, secret sins. (Who knew?)Mondays (alas), just provide middling fare,
Nothing here that I’d willingly sought;
So I settle for Prison Break’s kinky plots,
Will these felons never get caught?Tuesdays the Gilmores come my way,
A soaper with multi-tiered story;
Lorelai, Luke, Emily and Suki,
The romantic torments of Rory.Wednesdays bring paranormal sights,
Into Medium’s weird world I go;
Allison’s gift is both blessing and curse,
Thank God for her sensitive Joe.Fridays I try a Numbers watch,
In spite of its plot line sillies;
Then Jude Hirsh appears and I flip off,
That guy just gives me the willies.Saturdays are my catch up days,
Watching tapes of Ugly Betty;
And modern med’s bad boy doc House,
With convulsive cures e’er ready.The TV is my calendar,
I use it to measure my days;
It helps to pass the empty times,
On my cupcake life it’s the glaze.©2007 Michael Silverstein
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.