TV 2000
Electronics
I run on electrics
à la teletransformation
optical fibre transmission and
satellite communication
In my division
I sow unrest
on fields plant desire
create order in the land
in serried ranks
over fields flow tears
slink ditches full of water
salty brackish
I sew the world
with my cables
melting together and diverging
ionising transporting
everything to my truth
privatising drabness
and everything is shipshape
so it seems.
© Tjitse
Hofman, 1999
© translation
John Irons, 2000
original title: TV 2000, from TV 2000, Passage
Publishing Company, Groningen, 1999