My Life is but a Rerun

Netflix Inc. may soon have to contemplate life without its No. 1 show. It’s “The Office.”

Three of its biggest programming suppliers—AT&T Inc.’s WarnerMedia and Walt DisneyCo. in addition to Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal—are entering the streaming-video arena. After licensing rerun content to Netflix for years, happy to cash its checks, they are looking to take their hit content back to feed their own platforms.

WSJ

My life is but a rerun; an old sitcom, if you will.

With daffy situations that show little writing skill.

As I sit in my recliner with my laptop on my knee

I watch again "The Office" or some other potpourri.

My vegetable existence -- ne plus ultra for a clod --

is waiting for revival (where oh where is "The Mod Squad?")

There is no balm in Gilead that matches watching "Friends,"

and if I don't binge watch some more I'm gonna get the bends!

If I could but imagine life without my Netflix fix

perhaps I'd have an intellect that wasn't all toothpicks.

Can I afford the fees for streaming channels by the score?

I can, I guess, if it will bring me Mary Tyler Moore.