The news is extra, you can bet.
Its fiction casts a wider net.
Of facts, off-base,
No track or trace –
Let’s give those folks a statuette.
Behind the scenes, they access gain.
They pick and peck past their domain.
Don’t blink. Press print.
Oh, no. You didn’t.
Our hearts are torn; they pour champagne.
As readers, viewers, they hoodwink.
They tap their keys; they nod and wink
To grab the scoop
And loop-de-loop.
The story’s never what we think.
c2023 by Linda Ann Nickerson
This poem was posted
in response to these prompts:
- Five-Minute Friday: “access”
- Mad Kane’s Limerick-Off Monday: “net”
- Meme Express: “off-base”
- Simply Snickers: “pick,” “press,” and “print”
- Stream of Consciousness Saturday: “heart”
Image: “Extra! Extra!” from The Graphics Fairy / vintage / public domain
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Lovely! :)
ReplyDeleteI love this. I will look at some of your other work - I do like your illustrations too. Thank you. Dawn FMF #28
ReplyDeleteThere's fake news all 'round the place,
ReplyDeletewhat they want you to believe,
and it takes an act of grace
to not surrender, and not grieve
the second fall that we are in
which gives a certain primacy
to honouring of deadly sin
that's after all, our history.
The Romans crucified for sport
Christian men and Christian ladies,
and we're now told we should abort
living but unwanted babies,
and thus I I have no other choice
but speaking with a canceled voice.
Made to meddle with Miss Information,
ReplyDeletePaid to peddle the disinformation.
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