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Japanese Television 2004

Janet Kuypers
edited 7/26/04, edited further 9/19/05


as reported in the New York Times:

one new television show in Japan
boasts young women in bikinis
who attempt to smash aluminum cans
in between their breasts

another television show in Japan
brings a young boy on stage
to tell him his mother
has been shot and killed
to see how long it takes him
to cry

I wonder what they’d think
Married With Children
or THE SIMPLE LIFE, with the likes of Paris Hilton

come to think of it, I wonder
if Anna Nicole Smith
would ever be sober enough
to smah aluminum cans
between her silicone breasts

come to think of it,
with reality TV,
and Jerry Springer...
maybe I shouldn’t complain
about the television in Japan anymore

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