11-12-2021, 07:25 AM
Death in the Morning
It was the 70's
and I sat cross-legged
two feet from the TV
with a bowl of Fruit Loops
in my lap.
Whether it was Wile E. Coyote,
Yosemite Sam or some other
Saturday morning shmuck,
I've come to believe
all those animated electrocutions
and fifty-story falls
somehow helped to keep me
from getting zapped to death
or splatted on the road.
No one dies on Saturday mornings anymore.
There's no danger,
no gravity.
It's almost cartoonish.
It was the 70's
and I sat cross-legged
two feet from the TV
with a bowl of Fruit Loops
in my lap.
Whether it was Wile E. Coyote,
Yosemite Sam or some other
Saturday morning shmuck,
I've come to believe
all those animated electrocutions
and fifty-story falls
somehow helped to keep me
from getting zapped to death
or splatted on the road.
No one dies on Saturday mornings anymore.
There's no danger,
no gravity.
It's almost cartoonish.