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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