Saturday 1 February 2014

The Subjective Nature of News


first pub. by Poetry24- 31/01/14
in relation to news story Grandfathers-fury-drives-Jeep-house-daughters-noisy-neighbours



That’s how you bang on a wall
I thought,
A URL
To a familiar smell


It’s news if it’s on

AOL
Or The BBC


BBC

What’s news to me
my three sprogs
one with a cold
two in the bogs


My eight websites

and my lost phone number
-          my eight websites
and my lost phone number
of poetry and prose
my made-up word
that nobody knows
WYOCHUNG -
the can and the Carlsberg
the thousandth rung
the thousandth rung
up  the mountain of dung


That’s how you bang on a wall

I thought
That should make them
Pause for thought



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