Reality TV

The advent
Of reality television
That has flooded
The culture
Leads to the question
Can you live a
Valid life
If you never appear on
TV?
Is there any reality
in "reality TV?"
What kind of people
Desire to parade themselves
Into edited exhibitions
Performing for the
Cyclops eye of a
Camera?
Why are so many people
Addicted to watching
People whose
Very essence and
Behavior is being  
Changed by the
Knowledge that
They are being recorded
For consumption by
An “audience”.
Ubiquitous,
Hollow celebutantes
“Famous for being
Famous”
In a Andy Warhol
15 seconds of fame.
I feel sick,
Convulsed with
Desires to
Puke
Out of revulsion
To these pitiful
Spectacles
Reminiscent of
Locust infestations.
To think that
Elsewhere there
Are chanting
Buddhists
Trying to
Dissolve their
Egos
Into the
Vastness of
The universe.
To escape
The prison
Of the self.
It soothes
the senses
to know.
The antidote
For
The
Snake
Bite
Venom.