Simmer 

Simmering is great for soup,
but not for people.

Sylvia Edwards

Danger: anger under construction

If I try to be serious

If I try to be serious
and tell you so,
         
         You stop listening.

If I can't be serious
and can't tell you so,

I stop speaking.

If games keep you content
and my needs don't count,

We'll stop being.

Sylvia Edwards

Control

You sit there in your chair 
with the controls in hand;
First you try out this one
and then you try out that;
Changing your selections 
with both swiftness and glee.

Would you please remember

 I'm a person, 

not the  TV?

Sylvia Edwards