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TV Freaks

Disconnected Improperly Connected Geeks

By Thavien YliasterPublished 9 days ago 1 min read
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TV Freaks
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Teletubbies got TVs on their bellies

But if You sit 'round all day

You'll get tubby just watchin' the 📺 telly

By Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash

So The major corporations designed a plan

That was grand

Since we can't roam with vacuum tubes

Throughout the lands

So, they evolved their product

Made it capable to fit in the palm of our hands

By Yura Fresh on Unsplash

If mass control is their agenda's

Vendetta

They expanded their range

Effectively

Giving us

Antenna

By Olivier Darbonville on Unsplash

Now people are too weak

Afraid to put down their devices for weeks

As their Vices

Been played on by psychoanalysts

As a species this kind of

Over stimulus

Is something that we were never evolved

To handle this

By Ludovic Toinel on Unsplash

We prey on instincts

And mental cognition

So will power's Weakened, its voice is diminished

Hard to listen

We need to do more than pray

If we want the system

To change for the better

Cause this societal weather

Has evolved into shit storms

Yet, the broadcast was already forewarned

By Fatqurrohman Arrosyid on Unsplash

So afraid of losing connection

Yet, we also end up losing in this interconnected connection

As we consume not each other, but another's projection

Not choosing what we create

Even the selection of our words

It seems we've lost all manners to be discrete

We've evolved into televised monsters

Trapped in millions of birdcage screen device boxes

Not being happy beings

We're the ones who're freaks.

Sources Cited:

  1. Giphy. “Ded Teletubbie GIF by Moodman - Find & Share on Giphy.” GIPHY, GIPHY, 1 Mar. 2020, giphy.com/gifs/mood-YqE3jbSQQR6x9g19Kj.

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Thavien Yliaster

Thank You for stopping by. Please, make yourself comfortable. I'm a novice poet, fiction writer, and dream journalist.

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  • L.C. Schäfer6 days ago

    I especially love deVices. Clever!

  • Cathy holmes7 days ago

    Since I'm an old bat, I can say I lived most of my life with no mobile connection. Now it seems I can't leave the house without it. We are definitely too connected (she says while typing on her phone).

  • Gina C.7 days ago

    The first three lines about the Teletubbies made me giggle! Then this got deep! Excuse me while I go unplug myself 😅 lol

  • Great, great, great!

  • Rachel Deeming9 days ago

    This is excellent invective, Thavien! Loved it! Read like a rap too.

  • Omggggg, you're righttttt! It's like we do have antennas now!

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