Eight-line Poems

Gogglebox

Gogglebox

Sure, you can look at me.
Everyone else does
and the deal’s pretty good:
I show you whatever you want
and you fall asleep watching.
I just miss the old days,
when I could greet you with snow
flipping faces, or a test pattern.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, April 22 2021
Prompt: Write a poem from the point of view of an inanimate object.