Sonnet to Watching TV

Old Phillips TV set/ Alf van Beem, photographed at the museum Terug, CC 1.0

Another day’s haunting travail exceeds
frayed nerve expanses as inner drift yearns
to dull whirling mind howl and raucous screeds
in recurring migraine flashes that burn.
Acute mental ferment spills from the ears,
unheard feelings wrung, ousted, then erased,
so plugged-in remote signals might appear
primed for distraction in time’s broadcast space.
Into the void head words flood and thoughts gust,
supplanting numbness with rough emotions —
amore…