The News
i hear the news all
about isis
and
ebola
a
nasty bug
that
will kill you before you know it
i think someone is trying to make me afraid be very afraid
the weather has been sunny overcast
today
winter in on the
way
some say it will
be a very bad season
worst than last year
others say not so much perhaps mild
climate is
changing
so much confusion
midterm elections are here no
one knows which way it will go for sure
seems most people are mad at
the president
and
the congress too both
parties
and the usual protests and
killings robberies and rapes
same old pabulum
same old pabulum
maybe there really isn’t any news seems like we have heard it all before
October 21, 2014
13 comments:
I absolutely loved the way you ended your poem on such a brilliant note - very impressive.
I wrote on someone elses page that if I had to watch the news all day I would go crazy...so much of it is so negative...it would make you afraid to leave the house...and we should not be ruled by such fear.
Actually a lot of things are just becoming better.. but news are all negative so we end up thinking it will go to hell, and then when it doesn't we sit there and cannot care less.. love the conclusion..
Annell, it does seem that after a while the news does sound very similar to what we have heard before. The names change, the situations change somewhat, but much is the same. I do agree with the initial part of your poem in which you comment that probably someone is trying to make you afraid. It does seem that so much news inspires fear, and sometimes I wonder what's with that?
A wonderful lovely rambling poem, chasing the words all over the page (something I picked up too from Brian last year), like chasing the truth, which can be so very elusive. I wonder if someone graphed the news items for a month, how much of the same vein, feel, & subject would be repeated?
Your news bit sounds like its also happening in my country, smiles ~ Yes, all the same, just different names & faces ~ I admire the words scattered across the page ~
I like how the poem is a bit like rain - you can follow multiple paths down
That says it all.
"maybe there really isn’t any news seems like we have heard it all before" you have hit at the right point...
Yes, it seems like the "same old pabulum"...you and i took a similar path on this!
There is truly "nothing new under the sun" as King Solomon wrote. The hard part, for me, is that I don't want to become numb and uncaring but it's hard when the cycle pain and suffering caused by fellow humans just keeps spinning around and around and around and around...
Groovy form. Love- "same old pabulum"
Yes!!!!! It confounds me, how it goes on and on, all the Talking Heads repeating the chorus while nobody acts. As if talking will do it all. I like your new presentation, Annell...............it flows across the page quite wonderfully.......each phrase stands out on its own. I like it.
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