Essays, Poetry

The Restoration Will Not Be Televised

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Laura Nivis

You will not be able to stay home, brothers and sisters
You will not be able to plug in a CleanFlicks, kick back, and cop out
You will not be able to lose yourself on essential oils and skip out for root beer during the two unskippable ads
Because the restoration will not be televised

The restoration will not be televised
The restoration will not be brought to you by NuSkin in four parts without commercial interruptions
The restoration will not show you pictures of Gary Cox blowing a bugle and leading a charge by Mike Lee, Orson Hatch, and Mark Shurtleff
To ignore an ever shrinking Salt Lake while eating a green jello carrot casserole confiscated from a West Valley Bishop’s storehouse
The restoration will not be televised

The restoration will not be brought to you by a BYUTV original series and will not star Jimmy Stewart, Christopher Lloyd, or a pre-fame Ann Hathaway
The restoration will not give your knee-shorts sex appeal, the restoration will not make you $20,000 in summer sales, the restoration will not help your YouTube channel or Mommy blog go viral, because the restoration will not be televised, brothers and sisters

There will be no pictures of you and Bryce Harper pushing that MLM around the block on a homerun
Or trying to slide a Costco plasma TV into a minivan with a stolen recommend
KSL will not be able to provide summaries at 10am Mountain Standard Time of that which neither eye hath see nor ear heard
The restoration will not be televised

There will be no pictures of the SLPD beating down protestors at the University of Utah on the instant replay
There will be no pictures of the SLPD beating down protestors at Presidents Circle on the instant replay

There will be no pictures of D. Michael Quinn being run out of Provo on a rail with a brand new history
There will be no slow motion or still-lifes of the most tired old farmer in Sanpete County strolling through Temple Square in a red, white, and blue necktie that he had been saving for just the proper occasion

Real Housewives, Secret Lives, and Big Love will no longer feel so gosh-darned relevant
And women will no longer worry about the meaning of Fruity Pebbles in a Hulu limited series, because the Saints will be in the street looking for the Day Dawn Is Breaking
The restoration will not be televised

There will be no highlights on the online algorithm of blonde airbrushed women “auxiliaries,” nor of Vivint Solar knocking your door
The theme song will not be written by Peter Breinholdt, Janice Kapp Perry, or Lex de Azevedo, nor performed by The Piano Guys, Alex Boye, Lyndsey Sterling, Jenny Oaks Baker, Christina Aguilera, or Brandon Flowers
The restoration will not be televised

The restoration will not be right back after a message about yet another seven habits of highly elective people or the latest in BYU Conference alignment
You will not have to worry about the number of earrings in your ears, the closeness of your shave, or the size of your chalk circle
The restoration will not go better with Diet Coke
The restoration will not ask you to put on a little more makeup
The restoration will put you on the mercy seat

The restoration will not be televised, will not be televised
Will not be televised, will not be televised
The restoration will not be accessible from the Gospel Tools app, brothers and sisters
The restoration will be live

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