News

By EKPoet

The news reports of news reporters,
The faces of the newscasters
Reading the news, and the investigators
On location, live, in the midst of tragedies,
Riots, scandle, murder, theft,
The shadows of our lives

Clouds, shadows, footsteps
The footsteps of news reporters
Following us

The pictures on the covers of newspapers,
The faces of famine, grief, anger,

An in depth analysis of the mortgage crisis,
A discussion of climate change
The declarations of marshall law,
An interview with the heads of state
The editorials of editors

Clouds, shadows, footsteps

Without any apparent motive
The state apparatus
Conducts its spying
At length, in secret,
Without warrant
Concluding that the steps were necessary

The global war
Defined by politicians
And the motives of politicians

The shadows of politicians,
The incongruence of their speeches

The limits discussed of the carbon emissions
Of large, insensitive corporations
And their corrupt, chief executive officers

The conclusions of the experts

Reports of psychotic individuals
With semi automatic weapons
Shooting people at random
For no apparent reason
Again

Clouds, shadows, footsteps,
The footsteps of the news reporters

The galloping of horses,
The galloping of dark horses,

The discoveries of super infections
Spreading insiduously

And the release of convicts
Who overturned their convictions

The interrelated crisis of global markets
Strikes, protests, famine, fear,

The footsteps of giants
Whom we have never seen before

Storms, epidemics, disasters

The wheel out of our hands

As we watch the planes taking off
From the airports of foreign lands