Wednesday 20 February 2013

NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS


used to watch the rolling news drunk all night
i'd see seal clubbing on the blue ice
and russians turning off the gas to europe
every 
half
an 
hour

used to buy the papers
i'd marvel at the deceptions 
and the complicated persecutions
and 
follow
the money trail
best
i
could

i'd feel righteous in a twisted world
tall with knowledge
and
high on colonial foreign policy

now i avoid the news

it destabilises my delicate struggle for equilibrium

i watch tintin cartoons instead
full of clean colours
and hungrily read books from the 40s and the 50s
when everyone lived in rooming-houses 
and paid by the week
and beautiful women come out of nowhere with gin and tricks

and 
often
i
check 
its all quiet 
in the red berry bushes outside my window



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