Eugene Polley died today,
he invented the remote control.
The device which makes the armchair
life more luxurious, and television
viewing as easy as dreams.
Many could say his invention
was a nifty bit of engineering,
if they cared enough,
or knew how these things are made.
He did well to make inactivity
so enticing, and passivity so quietly passive
to the point that by merely pushing buttons
we can instantly summon, and dispose of,
millions of temporary, and faked, worlds.
He could have been a figure
from a Philip K. Dick dystopia,
he has remade us to live that way.
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