Chicken-Little Magpies

 

Chicken-Little Magpies

tweeting and twittering

screech the horror of falling skies

each new nano-second

I am plugged in

I know ... smut sells
but also
it smells
of someone else's pain and funk

Did I need to  …

revel in the excesses/distresses
headlines: "He Confesses"
dysfunctional antics
as addiction regresses
a once brilliant talent
into the public butt of jokes?

get the down low
low down
oh, so slow
blow-by-blow
of an Uber-rich couple’s break-up/breakdown
uptown
smackdown?

Does knowing that the Governor’s hemorrhoids

are healing nicely now

add anything

to my person

my mental state

or the richness of my life?

It upsets me

that war, disaster and poverty are too

ubiquitous

and mundane

to hold our stunted attention spans

Go stuff your trash talking “news”

I don’t care who is diddling whom
if whom prefers boys to girls

or which politician rates highest on the scale of slimy

Scandal-Rama is so last year

So get hip you Magpies …

tell me something

worth hearing

sensational because it is so
inspirational

uplift me
so I can lift up
my family
my community

my world

Tell me something
that will enrich us all
or tell me nothing,
nothing at all