I Have No Cable: A Performance Piece
Bad Poetry: Cable

By BoyBlunder
1/1/2001

I have no cable
I lost my longtime friend on Saturday
shatterday
no cable

The repairman will arrive on Wednesday
leaving me in a gulf of static
until then

no cable

I have lost my friendly coaxial umbilical cord
I cry

I read
but the words don't
speak to me

I go outside
but there's too much going on
no commercial breaks
no bathroom breaks
no cable

I wimper

I wake
no today show
no matt
no katie
no anne
no al
Is it today?
I am lost without the friendly banter of news anchors
once banal
now crucial
I realize too late
what I have lost
Why bother

I will miss Buffy
the key is gone
but i will not know
because i have lost the key
to my happiness

So i sit in my darkened room
hoping
soon
to have cable
my friendly talking companion
who tells me what to think
what to wear
what to like

i am lost

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