Cable Television Signal Interference

Heather Dekin
Picture of Oprah Winfrey in focus
Picture of Oprah Winfrey completely gone
Vanished into a black & white snowstorm
Received a slight electrical shock
After playing Chicken with a fuse box
Fingers smelled like Barbequed Chicken
Frustrated by the two hour holding time
With Comcast and Verizon Fios
Embarassed to be humming along
To the hold music theme music
A commercialized mush of a tune
That even Beethoven would loathe
Sacrificed a whole day staring
At a black hole wrapped in a 60 inch
Relieved when Oprah returned
Sick when the bill arrived.

Published by Heather Dekin

I am a college graduate who has been writing since I was twelve. Over the years, I experimented in different areas of writing. Though each experience, I learned to decide what was right for me as a writer an...  View profile

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