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science and narcissism,</p><p id="8429">We are in here.</p><p id="c3f4">We binge and binge on the predictability of TV.</p><p id="7549">We binge and binge on the characters, their routines, their antics, their tropes.</p><p id="6443">We take note as it is noon, then midnight and as something existed in between.</p><p id="2e80">But on this couch we float on the sea of distraction</p><p id="9d2c">as we hang on to whatever it is that makes us feel safe</p><p id="587e">whatever it is that feeds us a bit of common, normal, laugh tracks or not</p><p id="955f">we may be escaping we may be coping</p><p id="3677">but at least we are doing it</p><p id="d237">together.</p><p id="a20c">©<a href="https://medium.com/@jennyjustice">Jenny Justice.</a> All Rights Reserved.</p><p id="7faa"><b><i>Jenny Justice</i></b><i>, Poet. Author of Love in the Time of Climate Change and Reveal. You can read more of her poetry at<a href="https://medium.com/justice-poetic"> Justice Poetic.</a></i> <i>Sign up for her newsletter <a href="https://jennyjustice.substack.com/p/coming-soon?r=2jhb2&utm_camp

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Binge

A Poem

We on this couch watch episode after episode.

We on this couch say just one more.

We on this couch feel protection

radiating from the screen. New episode, new season,

lather, rinse, repeat, we exist in a bubble.

One series ends, then another and onto the next.

Each show a shield, each show a buffer

between us and this couch and the fear, dread and generalized

uncertainty of whatever is out there, in the air,

out there in the realms of decision making and powers that be,

out there in the strange war between science and narcissism,

We are in here.

We binge and binge on the predictability of TV.

We binge and binge on the characters, their routines, their antics, their tropes.

We take note as it is noon, then midnight and as something existed in between.

But on this couch we float on the sea of distraction

as we hang on to whatever it is that makes us feel safe

whatever it is that feeds us a bit of common, normal, laugh tracks or not

we may be escaping we may be coping

but at least we are doing it

together.

Jenny Justice, Poet. Author of Love in the Time of Climate Change and Reveal. You can read more of her poetry at Justice Poetic. Sign up for her newsletter here.