Necessity

It blows heat on wounds

It shows shows, dumb to great

In pockets in cars in schools also bars

In talks at parties, turned on while making love

We gawk at it. We watch ourselves

Bytes of history from this age

It moved the world toward seeing itself

far-off vision

tele vision

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- artwork by Rene Magritte, "L’empire des lumières (The Dominion of Light)," 1954
- mailed to California -