Here is the News

[Westminster, London, 22nd March, 2017]

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Here is the News and here are the
realities: on the BBC, reporters
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refer to catastrophic injuries while
cataclysmic scrolls along the screen –
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language perhaps at its most sadly
tautologous, but already gone astray
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[CNN reporting the former accurately
thousands of miles away, then explores
.
terrorist threats as a certain surmise]
and the news isn’t fake but dubious.
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What do we really know? Excusing
the profundity of that question,
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we know people have been hurt and
some have died. We know these did not
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make it across that everyday bridge.
We know no one needs to ask how
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eyewitnesses feel, but they will.
We know there will be no intentional
.
lies, but await characters from signals
beyond reasoning, and then poetries
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too risk footholds their finite words try
when walking carefully side-by-side.

 

Mike Ferguson

 

 


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