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Rated: E · Poetry · Other · #1042241

A critique of what we see as "newsworthy".

Wonderful words, scintillating sounds --
Welcome to the amusement grounds.
         Faces fill spaces,
         Smiles and jeers;
         Crying child
         Filled with fear.
Money makers, feelings to spare;
Take in the suffering, look at them stare.
         Mangled mass,
         Shattered glass --
         Crying child
         Filled with fear.
Headlines hawk a new tragedy
Ripped open for all to see.
         All have paid
         For money made
         From a crying child
         Filled with fear.
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