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Foster Cameron Hunter Reads

Spoiled Milk

I was a child seduced.
Mesmerized 
by ABC, CBS, NBC--
suckled at the small-screen nipple,
miseducated, inundated
by glowing images.

I had Good Times
with the Jeffersons,
poked fun at Aunt Esther
with Sanford and Son
like we were
All in the Family.

I learned the Facts of Life
from Arnold and Willis;
went through my own
Growing Pains
with dysfunctional
Family Ties.
I took
One Day at a Time,
all the while hot
for Designing Women.

I was mentally
masturbated, desecrated
by what Neilson rated,
was a channel surfer long
before my family could afford
a remote surfboard.

Subliminal advertising
commercial misrepresentations--
spellbound,
I grew up thinking
Life is like TV.
It took me 29 years to see
television is not
20/20.

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