Sonnet for Staying In Every Night

                             from Hong Kong Sonnets

Yes, yes. Let’s watch TVB after lunch. 
Sitcoms before dinner, during dinner, 
and afterward too. Check for the winner 
to this season’s singing teens, naive bunch 
with the luxury to ignore see wuy. Munch 
on this like talking protests is for sinners.
Eat it up because God forbid we get thinner 
and start thinking outside the on-screen punch.

Tune the high-def TVs and let’s gather 
for reruns of last year’s medical dramas,
watch them like Rome watching gladiators who won 
nothing but bread. Who wouldn’t rather
watch the poorly scripted soap operas 
than the nightmare of bailing out a son.

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