Light

How many cycles lived before a cycle seen?
television softens in the center and spreads
like a bath, the tub just clean enough
is it threes, I wonder, the unit, or fives
my particular biology, cells, the screen is warm
such early memories, it's art, a path
to stillness, a place to eat or sit for cheap, a fire
for several seasons, I have several seasons in
each series but the cancellation shocks me
I think it's threes, we're trained for fours
I'm starting now to see when I was 23
I had one the age of me, a gift, of all
the ways to watch light the one I miss
the most