#NerdsUnite: Poetic Peppering of Parfleche

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's Sam Kellett

 

There's Nothing Wrong With Television

There’s nothing wrong with TV sets

With watching television hits

With watching when your day is done,

And all you want’s a little fun

 

If you say “bah!” to televis

And tell your friends, “the problem is”

“The television people watch”

“For any bit is much too much.”

 

Then sir, a question just for thee:

Just how pretentious can you be?

Just how do you presume to say

That TV has no place today?

 

There really is just nothing worse

Than all those people on high horse

Who pucker up their lips and say”

“I have no TV, anyway.”

 

They wear it like a badge of pride,

They use it so they can deride,

Their friends, or people on the street

Or anybody that they meet.

 

“I have no television set.”

“I’m better than you, don’t forget”

“Go watch your TV, bourgeois fool,”

“That TV set’s the Devil’s tool.”

 

And is it really TV shows,

Which courses anger to their toes?

Or is it maybe something more:

IT MAKES THEM FEEL SUPERIOR

 

There’s so much good on that TV

Both drama, yes, and comedy

And mini-series, histories

Accessible to all who please

 

And television has the chance

To go where film can’t always dance

To tell a story, full and true

Which sometimes takes a year or two

 

 

Now TV addicts, don’t cheer yet

There’s something you must not forget:

Though television has its place,

It’s just one runner in the race

 

And just as good, and just as great,

ARE BOOKS: THEY ARE NOT SECOND-RATE

Please don’t forget the wondrous might

Of reading late into the night

 

For even worse than all those tools

Who say that TV is for fools,

Are those who say “Well I don’t read.”

“I never really saw the need.”

 

You never really saw the need?

To learn, to laugh, by God to READ?

Turn off the set, pick up a book,

You need to do more than just LOOK.

 

So really, what one needs to say,

Is why throw either joy away?

Why rid your life of either one?

When both are crucial, great and fun

#nerdsunite

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