no longer no longer
no longer no longer
can I sit by and watch
on the television
the news as it appears
just the same everyday
lions consume children
in front of their parents
live at the local zoo
only it gets to be
too much to sit and watch
to do nothing but clutch
nervously at your heart
as if the world were cast
on black and white film stock
given technology
and some idiot called
Spielberg paints a red coat
elegant with panache
onto a little girl
about to die so young
resting among others
a pile of dead bodies
I don't know what to say
no I can do nothing
but cry for hours on end
without even a clue
only that a movie
in its approach to make
fiction out of the real
life as we understand
it in all its beauty
at times comes as a shock
over a movie screen
as we choose to convey
the story of a goat
no this is not quite right
we interpret the news
how they choose with their tongue
gagging as it sometimes
does on the truth made false
made into a story
even narrative seeks
to speak in a language
where fiction is not lies
reason cannot discuss
the events of the day
since violence can feel
nothing as the tears slide
down my face when I watch
in horror the gory
obscene details of death
made real by our harsh world
the news tells us who dies
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