Bikini-clad lifeguards laze on TV
Pan chest to crotch – the male gaze on TV.
After men kiss, one gets shot, falls ill, sinks
into hell. Bury Your Gays on TV.
A shadowy moor. A jump scare. Machine-
made wind moans. A ghost-hound bays. On TV,
reaching toward heaven, the preacher asks for
money. He prays and he preys. On TV
each sniffle turns comic or terminal.
Phony wildfires blaze on TV.
Under harsh lights focused on his shaking
hands, the hopeful pianist plays on TV.
You need perfume, car wax, Christmas Barbie!
Models drape across sleighs on TV.
Their passion vanished like a vampire
turned to dust by the sun’s rays on TV.
When the world’s too thorny, slip away
to the pillowy clichés on TV.
After the apocalypse, survivors
stagger around in a daze. On TV,
characters are murdered but then brought back
next season. Death’s just a phase on TV.
Helped by a woman he’ll dump, Theseus
surmounts Minotaur and maze. On TV,
myths have commercials. Fairies grant wishes,
rainbow-maned unicorns graze on TV.
Book abandoned, Stone’s enchanted by hot
actors, adoptable strays on TV.