C. E. Chaffin
published and edited The Melic Review for eight years prior to its hiatus. This month he joins the staff of Umbrella as Contributing Editor, Poetry.
His new volume, Unexpected Light: Selected Poems and Love Poems 1998-2008, is due out soon from Diminuendo Press.
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On Television
I watch the television, it watches me.
Eye to eye the contest isn’t fair.
The TV has more personality.
We are a symbiotic entity.
It feeds my brains electrons while I stare.
I watch the television, it watches me
When plots pile up into redundancy
I still take pleasure in the clothes and hair.
The TV has more personality.
It’s not the vanguard of passivity;
It seeks to rivet me with violent fare.
I watch the television; it watches me
I know the tube is not reality
But who’s to blame if I prefer it there?
The TV has more personality.
In my depression I salute TV,
Nobler than my brain chemistry’s nightmare.
I watch the television; it watches me.
The TV has more personality.
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