So, I was reading the news today- trying to find an article worth writing about… and I just couldn’t do it.
I looked at all the stories which are the same as yesterday’s stories, and likely the same as tomorrow’s stories, and I couldn’t work up the will to tackle another one today.
However, one of my other endeavors outside of this site is writing a poem a day for my next book due out next year. And in today’s poem, I vented my frustrations at the news, and the world, and all of us- the consumers of media and info-tainment, and I figured I’d go ahead and share it with you here readers. I promise I’ll return to writing news commentary pieces again tomorrow, but for now, enjoy something a little different…
july 16th poem
I picked up the news today and flipped pages and felt outrages
at the senseless acts of inhumanity that I found myself reading about
want to see what I mean these fiends phonies frauds and mother fuckers
what are they doing? well let me count it out
1- housing lender fraud
2- wars and disputes over god
3- downsizing of the countries jobs
4- the governing of the government by a brainless slob
5- medical coverage of erectile dysfunction over birth control
6- south american women and children being bought and sold
7- the rich getting richer while the poor get more poor
8- the buying out and closing down of mom and pop stores
9- refusing the rights of human rights to humans, right?
10- detainees being sent to other countries to be tortured out of sight
11- our young men and women being sent to die without knowing why
12- the politicians and CEOs and news media all feeding us lies
13- more care being given to young starlets
who are more like modern time harlots
drinking and driving
doing drugs and thriving
on negative press
opening their legs and showing their breasts
reality tv
celeb babies
mindless nonsense
that offends my good sense
breath being wasted on all of this waste
when the wasting of our precious world and lives should be what’s in your face
*breath*
but I understand
I understand that it’s hard to deal
when all you get is a raw deal, I know how it feels
I know how it feels to open the paper wanting to skip straight to the “funny”s
rather than reading about how we’re losing the value of money
I know how it feels to want to check the latest sports scores and stats
rather than reading about the latest shooting that occurred not blocks from where you’re at
I know how it feel to want to check the tv listings to see what’s going to be on tonight
rather than think about another day having to go out and face injustices- it ain’t right
but we have to
we have to let go of our aversion to knowing and embrace knowledge despite ignorance’s bliss
because if we don’t, if we won’t we will lose all of this.
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