NEWS!

News!

Spread like wildfire,
Ate their hearts,
Corrupted their minds,
Distracted their spirits,
Made it
ALL
SEEM
SO
IMPORTANT
TO KEEP UP WITH THE NEWS! -

Drumming
Thrumming,
Keep on coming,
Banging
Crashing
Beating
Eating

NEWS! -

On the hour -

NEWS!

Shout it on the streets

NEWS!

Everywhere

NEWS!

Before bed,
At the table,

NEWS!

As they slept,
To be chewed over

NEWS!

To be discussed
To worry about

NEWS!

On a Sunday

NEWS!

Spitting and churning

NEWS!

Chopping and weaving

NEWS!

Hoodwinking, deceiving,

NEWS!

Battering, crying,

NEWS!

Flattering, lying,

NEWS!

Destroying, remoulding,

NEWS!

Corroding, corrupting,

NEWS!

All-changing, attention-holding,

NEWS!

Filling the air between molecules,
Atoms,
Electrons,

NEWS!

Processed,
Filtered,
Redirected

NEWS!

Noted
Analysed,
Logged,
Computed

NEWS!

(Was me breathing,
Your farts,
Their row
Her thoughts
His dreams
Their hopes
Their despair)

NEWS!

Was Everywhere

Too much

NEWS!

Was overpowering

NEWS!

Disorientating

NEWS!

Dementing

NEWS!

Destroying
Taking
Numbing

NEWS!

Dumbed down
Defeated

NEWS!

Pervaded
Invaded

NEWS!

Intruded
Excluded

NEWS!

Described
Dislocated

NEWS!

Suffocated

NEWS!

Had to be STOPPED

NEWS!

Had to -
-please-
- be STOPPED !

NEWS!

Had to be STOPPED!-

NEWS!

- had to be -

STOPPED!

NEWS!

Had to be STOPPED!



There now - that's better -

I can think again.



NEWS!!!!!!