Saturday Morning Cartoons
Your eyes blink open with confusion.
Why are you waking yourself?
Why is there bright sunlight about?
Your fearful heartbeat slows
as a smile builds upon realizing
it is Saturday.
You scramble out of bed
with urgency unfelt other mornings.
The others are theirs.
You own today.
Now the heart beats faster
with two pulses:
anticipation of what will be
and dread for what you may have missed.
Now in the den
you flick on the TV to answer your questions.
The clock means nothing
since you don't know the schedule by time
but the order you know by heart.
You catch relief to see
that Wylie and Elmer are still pursuing their prey.
"In the News" is your chance
to snag a sugar-filled bowl
leaving the milk carton out--no time to waste.
Back on the watch you set mesmerized,
enchanted.
Your only break from the trance
is to quickly get a refill
you won't finish
or to crawl over and flip the channel
for emergent preference
awaiting your attention.
Outside the sun warms your coming afternoon.
For now it must wait.
Not before the too-soon transition
to the music & dance that will transfix you
in the teenage years to come
or the sports broadcasting that will someday
beckon your adult mind
will you sigh your signoff
and rise to face the day.Discussion about this post
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