eric sundin

Does our watching those celebs
so wealthy & carefree
clear our drudgery’s cobwebs
thin out boredom’s debris?

Seen how, say, grocery clerks
carry on like show hosts
setting off verbal fireworks
with check-out line ripostes?

Do talk shows model us folks?
Or do talk shows inform
manipulate, joke & coax
us in how to perform?

Keeping up the banter in ubiquity
in a tiresome culture of obliquity

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-obliquity = moral or mental deviation; here: being vague due to intellectual laziness or lack of language; a turning aside from sound thinking or facts

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