The Day We Didn't Get TV

“Get ready for school”

The sound of the PBS kids

show “Arthur”

Is drowned out by talk of

“Get ready, get your shoes,

hurry up, Captain Crunch?

Kix? Coco Puffs? Eat Breakfast.

Hurry up.”

The walk down Parker St.

goes on forever.

I keep walking but I never seem

to get to Lexington High.

I go to the cafeteria to chill with my friends

until the bell rings for first class.

First class, second class, third class

Lunch.

Fourth class, fifth class, sixth class

Crunch.

The final bell rings I look forward to sports

After sports I look forward to going home and

eating food and watching TV.

This one day I couldn’t get good reception on

the television, and called my mom on the phone

and asked,

“Where’d the cable go?”

She said, “I got rid of it.”

I asked, “Why?”

She said “Because I don’t like what is on it.”

I was really mad at her so I went

upstairs and did my homework.

Since that day I’ve only been able to watch

only some football games and other sports

on a TV with a broken antenna.

But no MTV or HBO, stuff like that.