Iron Chef America

Watching Food Network while trying to write an essay has its benefits.

Now I glare in silence as
The man does flips across the stage;
He wears a suit, he's clearly foreign,
Overdoing facial motions,
Advertising cookware, chefs;
I recall how a younger me
Accepted this, thinking that 'Its
Just what he must do, I guess.'
While the show diverted off
Far from his childlike caters
And I forgot, we all forgot
The intro to the paper whose
Conclusion was designed to be
A tangent from the get-go.
(Where flips will lead to pan-seared clams)

-But now I sit with my mouth gaped,
Wondering if he's watching too;
And cringing with my every cringe.

Author's Note

Heavily inspired by a conversation I had about the role of modern television(with no offense to the Food Network) with a fellow writer on here.

Reviews

[J.V. Stanley]

This is awesome! Love it! It is funny how the escapades and exaggerations of people on television, ESPECIALLY in advertising mocks our intelligence, and yet we laugh and buy the products they sell. Children sit and watch and think that one should be so excited to own that doll, though after two weeks its laying in a corner in that same child's room. Don't even get me started on the "This is Bob" male-enhancement commercials, I can only IMAGINE what goes through a child's mind upon seeing one of those. That guy even scares me!

Anyway, children aren't the only ones who are highly pressured by modern television either, adults are just as much though we don't care to admit it, whether it be a fictional character we admire or a celebrity who's wearing a cool new pair of shoes or a new shade of nifty eyeshadow...or simply we try to emulate their behavior thinking that perhaps if we acted more like this character or someone other than myself then perhaps the same outcome of this storyline would be in my future as well...

Ok, venturing off topic and now I'm going on a tangent :)

He wears a suit, he's clearly foreign,
Overdoing facial motions,
Advertising cookware, chefs;

Overdoing the facial motions reminds me of old dubbed movies, lovely image here.

Superb work as always my dear

[Muse]

lol, just like reality T.V....you want to believe that's it's real, but you see them over-reacting with their facial expressions..so you have to question. Is this for real? Or is somebody paying you to do this?? lol Or maybe it's both?

[Victoria PoetryBunny]

I been watching the food network recently... haha nice poem, though i don't watch much Iron Chef this is a good poem for it.

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great obversational writing..comical LOL

[Amy Vaughn]

*cringe* heheheh i liked.

[freelancejouster]

i quite like this. it's so clever.

[Liza]

sensationalism at its best...reality tv is making a fool of people to command attention; we are realizing more and more that acting is a skill that most don't possess.

[Kenneth The Poet]

This poem is somewhat hysterical. I was giggling as I read it. Quite the work, Mike.

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

I love this show, what a fabulous write!

[Clarisse Nanoit]

*that noise*
you know.

[Linear]

Is everything plastic? Plastic food for plastic people within their plastic imaginary lives...are we living in a matrix of sophisticated lies to lay down our bucks for that imaginary f..k?

Enjoyed :0)