Good Job

If you wanted to create a society
insensitive to pain and suffering

unable to hold interest in anything
for over five minutes

ready to try anything once
especially if it's on sale

fearful of nothing except
Silence

you couldn't do better
than what media do now
bombarding the populace

with so many horrors
they lose meaning

such rapid news
nothing sinks in

such variety of products
you always feel needy

relentless relentless jabber
the sound track we live by

Pascal said
All humanity's troubles
come from not knowing
how to sit still in
one room

but in his day
none of the rooms
had TV sets