not real

Been sitting in my kitchen

listening to episode

after episode

of House

Not watching

just listening

and after hours

upon hours

of listening

sometimes attentively

sometimes not

I knew

I knew the yelling

was phony

was acting

was lacking

an edge

an edge I know

from that point

the magic of

of listening to House

was gone

it seemed false

not real

as not real

as it was not

real