A Telly

I have moved house from one to another,
hunting for a flat that comes with
a telly and a couch.
Now, I abide in one at last,
a twenty nine inch screen,
a remote controller, a DVD player,
a tape player, films,
and a big couch.

But oddly I still cannot be a potato couch
as I intended to be for such a long time.
Probably, in my vision,
I am still expecting a telly that once
you tried to ask around for me
and wanted to deliver it to my door
before you headed home for Christmas.

But unexpectedly that night a flatmate of mine
did ahead of you when he left for home
and so I had to turn you down
before the winter howled.
However, I have learned from
the telly in your heart
that a Christmas is not to let
a friend alone.

25.10.2003, 05:23 AM, Saturday.
Plymouth, United Kingdom.