The case for TiVo
Norbert has something to say about those commercials we see on TV.
Ads of a Modern Hamlet
Oh, that this too too gratuitous stream of babble would stop
and become something worth attention
Or that that the remote had been fixed
To make its mute button work again. Oh God, God,
How redundant, monotonous, and aggravating
Seem to me all of these commercials
A pack of self convincing lies
That expand to produce; people obese, depressed and impotent
Possessing them entirely. That they need such drugs!
With three months, three months payments of 19.99, nay not so much three, not
Always three, not if you call at the immediate hour
So excellent the show I was watching that was to this,
My mind a joy and relief,
That the winds from my mother’s screeching vocals could not
Visit my ears too roughly about the mess in my room or some irrelevant matter
But then it comes again…
Must I remember the lines?
“Where does depression hurt? Everywhere! Who does depression hurt? Everyone!”
why they would echo in my mind,
and yet within a month you may return it if you are unsatisfied
Let me not think of it; evil thy name is Viagra!
Month after month, you’d think it would get old
With which follows even more hideous ads
Like Bob, all smiles: why he, even he—
O’ God! A rapist, without any moral values,
Would be less lustful
A happy man, but no more like a happy man
Than someone on Prozac
Prozac…
Within a few hours,
Ere yet the salt of all the tears
Which had gathered in the pits of one’s eyes,
would be replaced with an artificial smile
Oh, most wicked thing, to play
With such dexterity with one’s emotions
It is nor it cannot come to good.
But alas, I must sit and be patient
Norbert Period 6
Ads of a Modern Hamlet
Oh, that this too too gratuitous stream of babble would stop
and become something worth attention
Or that that the remote had been fixed
To make its mute button work again. Oh God, God,
How redundant, monotonous, and aggravating
Seem to me all of these commercials
A pack of self convincing lies
That expand to produce; people obese, depressed and impotent
Possessing them entirely. That they need such drugs!
With three months, three months payments of 19.99, nay not so much three, not
Always three, not if you call at the immediate hour
So excellent the show I was watching that was to this,
My mind a joy and relief,
That the winds from my mother’s screeching vocals could not
Visit my ears too roughly about the mess in my room or some irrelevant matter
But then it comes again…
Must I remember the lines?
“Where does depression hurt? Everywhere! Who does depression hurt? Everyone!”
why they would echo in my mind,
and yet within a month you may return it if you are unsatisfied
Let me not think of it; evil thy name is Viagra!
Month after month, you’d think it would get old
With which follows even more hideous ads
Like Bob, all smiles: why he, even he—
O’ God! A rapist, without any moral values,
Would be less lustful
A happy man, but no more like a happy man
Than someone on Prozac
Prozac…
Within a few hours,
Ere yet the salt of all the tears
Which had gathered in the pits of one’s eyes,
would be replaced with an artificial smile
Oh, most wicked thing, to play
With such dexterity with one’s emotions
It is nor it cannot come to good.
But alas, I must sit and be patient
Norbert Period 6
posted by Ian Anthony Godburn at 8:20 AM
6 Comments:
The smiling Bob part is ture and scary. If you need to buy your drugs off TV ads, then your a lost cause.
lol very creative, I love my TiVo and have been addicted since the day I got it.
oh that was sent by Brad Goran Per 6
TV commercials are indeed often scary...especially those advocating drugs....the emotions brought forth in your soliloquoy were so true
-masha telishevsky period 6
nice job
i wish i had tivo actually but my parents wont get it
oh well
laura Lascoe
Period 6
This soliloquy was practically made for 3 easy payments of 19.99 it's so perfect! :D /Hannah
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