Read Poem: INFO-COMMERCIALS, by Perry Terrell

Late night television
Is inundated
With infomercials

I want everything
They advertise
Because everything
They advertise
Is better than
What I have

My flashlight sucks
And so does my
Skillet and can opener

Even though
I hope not to have
An accident
I need one of those
Dash cameras
To record
My back seat
While I’m
Driving

Then
I’m scared
To get out of
My car
With a credit card
In my pocket
Because
I don’t have
A lock wallet
And everyone
I pass
Is recording my
Credit card number
And will charge
The rest of my
Two dollars
And blow my limit

So I stay home
A lot
And get frustrated
Watching my television
With those couple of
Channels
Because I don’t have
Those special antennas
So I can get
Those hundreds of
Channels
That I wouldn’t
Watch anyway

So I get up
And start to clean something
Then get
Frustrated again
Because I didn’t order
That Zap stuff
That will sparkly clean
Everything

So I sit back down
And watch
More infomercials
And write down
All of the numbers
And websites
Where I can get
Life insurance
Without a physical examination

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Genre: society, funny