BAD NEWS

from shapersofthe80s.com

time 
was
i would watch rolling news
boil the world
deep into nights dark weave
and
breakfast on distilled morning rags / Red Tops rising bloodshot
barking
with
false teeth / wet tongue / all Pavlov at the privatised dawn
and
i
would feel a hot rise
of wrong-glory 
of fear-justification
of pub-night-indignation
at
the
lethal playground shoves of Goblin Meat Puppets
swaying elections
on
money
whims

now i filter 
political weather / crisis entertainment 
thru
depleted uranium nerves -

it
weakens me and shames me and lowers us all
into 
pill boxes and padded bunkers
with
a
mandated two-car space
tagged onto our hutch-build GPSed
for
Amazon drone accuracy 
and
blinkered 
happiness

 

 from www.cnn.com