Even as technology spins
higher into possibility
I am ever more amazed at
how some lies are
spread in such old-fashioned ways,
manure spreaders of power
using whatever by-line
or rapid graphics the eye can catch
and believe
under the overextended
bass tones of a cereal
commercial voice talent.
Buy this line, it’s sweeter than the truth.
The voices roll over
the waves and it’s not even
a commercial break.
How can the message be sifted
from the news and placed
in that fourth stomach we have
for digesting news,
the place where our cud is kept ‘til
chewed to fully get it?
or have we turned more meekly
into the flock of mindless sheep
I once recalled,
all lining up for the
humming of the shears?
5-13-05
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