Incidentally, the television like a vampire can only be killed

killed in an anthropomorphic sense

with a wooden stake, or a log thrown hard, with conviction,

and even this may not break the antique tube’s vacuum seal.

Pyrite, what we all thought was a middle class silver spoon,

it was full of codine and the sugar

sugared opiates, recorded and recoded for future generations

helps the medicine go down.

Everyone may be whatever commercial they want.

I’m striving for the individuality of those

smiling youths that know how to dance to their own drum though, incidentally

incidentally I would like to sell you this poem

they are smiling for pay. poems upon poems if I could pass them off as property

and I have some random junk in my car I have

no more use for. Also, some old trading cards

or I could sell you my time and efforts.

Life has gotten convoluted for those who desire

desire being quite motivational

tomatoes in February and ice all summer long,

because the difference between need and want

is understandably never made very clear by salesmen.

Just as the government bails consumers out of debt, incidentally

coincidentally it seems to work out nicely for a few people

with the hope that they will continue to consume      people