Plane crashes, new terror threats, another million starving in poverty
and Mr Jones, 53, of Westhill, Commonshire whose pigeon,
missing for five years, finally came home;
opinions given by 'people who know things' tell us what to think
about airports, education, what to feed our kids,
make snide remarks to bring down celebrities whose crimes were
being pretty, talented or caring enough to talk about things other than shoes.
This is our daily dose of bad medicine, the information we are not informed without:
we read about strangers so we don't have to talk to the ones all around us,
cry at sad stories of people far away
while ignoring the breaking heart sat next to ours.
We turn away from our discomfort distracted by discomfort:
it is only the distance
that changes it from life
to news.
and Mr Jones, 53, of Westhill, Commonshire whose pigeon,
missing for five years, finally came home;
opinions given by 'people who know things' tell us what to think
about airports, education, what to feed our kids,
make snide remarks to bring down celebrities whose crimes were
being pretty, talented or caring enough to talk about things other than shoes.
This is our daily dose of bad medicine, the information we are not informed without:
we read about strangers so we don't have to talk to the ones all around us,
cry at sad stories of people far away
while ignoring the breaking heart sat next to ours.
We turn away from our discomfort distracted by discomfort:
it is only the distance
that changes it from life
to news.