There is a button on the remote control called FAV...
Maria S. Mendes
I like this poem because it is about preservation.
First, preservation from the outside world: one gets home, turns on the TV, and selects what one wants to watch. Rankine says this has to do with choosing a world closer to the one we live in; in her case, a world without the interference of news programs. We might assume she would be avoiding violent events, but considering the week the poem describes, Rankine’s favorite channels play movies and series as violent as any news program: “always someone gets shot or pierced through the heart with an arrow”.
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