remix
on the idiot box these day
there’s a new craze
among sophomores a soap
about the life of students
in an ultra cool school
where teaching is banal
and lifestyle chic
in the subtext runs a story
of a chalk and cheese couple
rustic rural boy and rich urban gal
hopelessly falling in love
dialectics at work
imitating life
my 12 year old daughter
is addicted to the soap
understandably
but increasingly i find myself
drawn towards its syrupy stuff
and try to reach home
before 8 pm monday till thursday
guess what last evening
i downloaded its title track
which now rests
comfortably on my desktop
in the august company
of ms. hilton’s fake video
a mid-life crisis
or am i just a sucker for romance?
(13 March 2005)
