That's Entertainment, 2018

It's Saturday night; what to do with our time?
We have five hours to rest and unwind,

We need entertainment to lift up our spirits!

You got a suggestion? I’m ready to hear it.

Let’s see a movie!  What will it be?

Paddington, Thor or Pitch Perfect 3?

Widescreen or IMAX or maybe 3D?

Or stop by the Red Box for a cheap DVD?

We’ve seen all of these, let’s check out TV.

With 400 channels there’s something to see.

Click-No-Click-No-Click--who would-a thunk?

With 400 channels there’s nothing but junk?

How about HBO, Cinemax, Starz or Showtime?

Or stream something new from Amazon Prime.

On Demand, Apple, or Playstation Vue?

Or YouTube, Netflix, Sling or Hulu?

We could play a game, on X-Box or Wii,

We’ve got Nintendo, GameFly and our old PS3.

That cool fighting game once cost us big bucks,

And we could play it again, but we lost the nunchucks.

We could listen to music on Alexa or iTunes,

On cool wireless speakers that fill up our rooms!

We’ve got thousands of songs that cost 99 cents.

And enough compact discs to fill up a tent.

We’ve got videos, too, that cost 12-99,

And we’ve got quite a few, and we watched them one time,

We could stream our PC to our Wi-Fi TV,

But I don’t know how; the TV’s smarter than me.

Let’s just relax and read a good book,

We’ve got all the best sellers on Kindle and Nook,

We’ve got some on iPad, some soft-back, some hard,

And enough magazines to cover the yard.

But first let’s check Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest,

There’s usually something there of great interest,

Like dancing Chihuahuas, or nice juicy tidbits,

About Hillary, Trump or some other nitwits.

Alas, our beautiful evening has waned,

As we wondered how best to be entertained.

Reality strikes like a dissonant chord,

Too much entertainment makes us all too-much bored.