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Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: Changing Channels (An Ode to NBC)

August 14, 2016 by Jeff Burkhart Leave a Comment

Every couple years The World Olympic Games are aired We have to turn on NBC To see how countries fared Michael Phelps is mining gold The pride of Baltimore Tiny little gymnasts Tara, Weir; but wait there’s more! The network’s spending billions So that we will watch “Today” In hopes that they can sell some […]

Filed Under: Features, Poetry Tagged With: Jeff Burkhart, NBC, Olympics, poetry, Rhyme and Reason

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