Watching Tv Poem by Andy Caldwell

we watch a lot of TV
it helps pass away time
or it provides opportunity
to learn and to grow
to vicariously know
and experience other realities
characters we'd rather not be
people and cultures
real and imaginary
that we would never see
some simple and shallow
others complex and deep
characters and situations
that we will not be
TV broadens our view
it shows what is new
it shrinks the world
into what we can view