Inspired By, Loosely Based on Reality

I read it in the news, so you know the story must be true. A woman died while watching television, sipping green tea. Need I mention, forty-two years went by before her body was discovered? This is a warning to those of you who watch too much t.v. Here's a poem I wrote about her.

Cob webs in the land of death
forty-two years escaped her

Evidence, the final pleasure,
watching a black and white
screen

The last person she saw,
an actor pretending to be someone else

I wonder what was on in 1966?

Monster movie? scared her out of the flesh
she kept and left her incompetent

Did she pass before the ending?

Imagine waiting all those years
for closure, waiting all those years
for a decent ending

Her neighbors have since discovered
cable while she never got to finish
the last silent movie

She didn't bother inviting anyone over, because
why would you want to visit people who
don't care too much that you're dead?

Time on earth, slipping from her
finger tips as she stepped back
to scrutinize the life lost to new
invention

sipping a sincere cup of tea
as though tainted with poison

Forty-two years escaped her

After the introduction of reality t.v.
she finally said ENOUGH!

Come Find My Corpse