Breaking (making) News 

Within a hour the news media bought up, 

lock, stock and barrel, franchise style, 

the entire tragedy 

and now we’ll see for weeks on end 

talking heads who know everything about everything 

nobody wants to know anything about 

and endless loops of the same old scenes, 

the same old interviews about how they felt 

and a few computer enhanced re-creations 

thrown in for good measure 

and they will call it breaking news long after it broke 

and we the masses sit on the edges of our seats 

asking the same old questions, scratching our asses 

and waiting for more

but at least it distracts 

from all this other manufactured bulls#*t.


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From the Top Down

Advertisements is the aim,
the goal, the ultimate objective
and entertainment programming
is just the vehicle

and like everything else
in our hi-tech world
the vehicle gets smaller
and smaller.

Eventually
all that will be left
is advertisements hitching rides
on other advertisements.