he sat all day watchin’ TV…saw the damndest things…all these commercials…Ford trucks…Budweiser…feminine hygiene products…various prescription drugs for anxiety…blood pressure…COPD…

and he’d flip through channels from one advertisement to the next…Trivago…come to Jamaica…Nike shoes…Just do it…insurance salesmen…car dealers…

finally he’d settle on the news…some cable channel that gave high marks to the president…struck fear into the hearts of millions with stories of a complete collapse in America’s moral fiber…how the West could still be won…

eventually it was all noise to him…just plain old noise that put him to sleep…zoning out to tales of pop culture…everything for sale…name your price…

wonder if he ever woke up…