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Another Soap is Down the Drain
Posted: May 16, 2009
The Guiding Light is gone…
The Guiding Light has shined its last.
The seven-decades beam it cast
on radio (and then TV)
has been unplugged for good.
It's gone the way of other soaps
like Edge of Night and Ryan's Hope
for all my children never watched.
Did yours? Most likely not.
Our daytime viewing habits changed.
What we once watched, we now think strange.
Those steamy plots have given way
to talk shows and the news.
And with the fact more women work,
their rating dropped into the dirt.
No longer do young housewives while away
days of their lives.
But lest we think we're so mature,
our night time shows aren't all that pure.
Both Bones and Grey's Anatomy
are rated R for sex.
Soap operas aired at night or day,
will leave our souls a dingy gray.
What we allow to fill our minds
eventually leaks out.
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