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Television

Frank De Canio

Odd. A sitcom in Chicago
picks up the slack of my business trip,
takes on the contours of desire,
feeds on the meal I’m eating,
digests it in commercial breaks,
repackages its contents. Whimsy absorbs
the tartness of the bass I drink
while flirting with fancy
after a hard day’s work,
pollinates the rose of its conceit
with kinetic fauna,
breaks into the compact of my dreams,
couples itself with soulful yearning,
breeds a contagion of images
which, stealing its fragrance, parades
in masquerades. Nor can I shake the shades
of daydreams from its aftertaste.
Fiction steals my affection
with graphic measures, sets up house
in prime-time recesses of my heart.
And love, since blind, takes the imposter
for the fling, sweetly consummated
in celluloid as it beams projections
on the screen of memory.

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