When the Tv is off
There is no soundtrack
No accompaniment
When a jet plane goes down
When the gun goes off
Just screams
Then silence
Or sirens
It was just a car backfiring
No, that was a gun
And the silence after
The broken bones of a fall
Waiting for someone to find you
It's a Thursday night
Prime Time lineup
Getting cozy with your popcorn
The Simpsons at 8
Then Seinfeld, Frazier
The prime time
To commit that crime
No one could hear you
Unless they got up to pee
During a commercial
Dolores Zombory
Copyright 1994