ah the multifarious
eerily tinted sieve
of television
thru which Derrick dripped
& dried up.
what's left of Derrick?
siftings on a billion screens
rerun, bounced by satellite, analyzed
bland commentators with their dowsing wands
mumbling things like multimedia phenomenon
they spliced him up like Orpheus
"all the rage"
in the end: hypertext
without homepage
the gist & gissom of the kid is gone