Nothings On. Somethings Off

200 million channels.

That’s how many creators are on the internet.

I remember when they used to say, “70 channels and nothing on!"

I miss a time before mine when they couldn’t say anything at all

I seek the pearls amidst a vast ocean of irrelevancy.

I miss the days of 73 channels. I miss the days of black and white static and bunny ear antennas.

I miss the quiet of that time.

I think we missed a train that went another way.

I miss when people only spoke

when they had something worth the say

I miss the quiet silence and appreciation people had

for what we all call uncomfortable and awkward now

Like everyone’s afraid to hear a heart beat

or a mouth exhale.

Anything human and intimate

is too much for 200 million channels to bear

witness

I miss seeing in your eyes

the grand display of all the heavens all at once

in those cloudless starry nights

what are all these strange lights?

Blue and red and green and bright that paint the sky obscuring

obscuring obscuring obscuring our sight

I can still remember though, barely ever see

Reflections of the moon off of a far and remote lake.

Reflections of a people who knew what was at stake.

Who knew something called fate.

Who threw the runes and casted coins

Who told the future before the future became a static moment frozen in space

The old prophecies have either been fulfilled or failed to come

I miss the world that was before the one that makes us all feel numb

the world stopped turning

It must have stopped

to see what all the ruckus was.

“200 million channels

and nothing on.”

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