Ode To The Remote Control Poem

By Sophie Allyah

With one press:
News from around the world
Of recent events
Matters that are newsworthy

Another press:
‘That’s all folks! ‘
Porky Pig is stuttering the outro

And another:
Eddie Van Halen is riffing some tunes
Short in length but superb

The ambassador of paradise
With one click to another
Coursing from monster land
To farthest of the universe
It never ends.

An utmost
And the most important device
In human history
Only if you’re a couch potato.