Face it! The advertising industry
Runs the world, and this week’s hype proves my point.
Eight of each thirty minutes on TV
Demands that you succumb, consume, anoint
This candidate, that drug or charity,
However spurious, however lame.
Erectile dysfunction caused by LowT?
No problem! Man up, eat pills, avoid blame.
This Superbowl! Our nation’s holiday,
The epic struggle of two massive teams.
It’s coming soon—those advertisers say.
The networks chatter, teasing viewers’ dreams—
A hundred million folks will watch that game
They’ll eat and bet and drink, get all enflamed.
Yet networks do not hype athletic lads—
They show previews of coming game-time ads.
(1/31/12)