Your eyes flash starbright
Intent with interest
Open to something new
Or happy with familiar old
Observing the scene with a practiced literacy
Crowdreading
Pairs recombine into clusters
Then break up into singletons
Your eyes read past the headlines
Into the backstories
Carried by this mainstream flesh press
A broadsheet of humanity
Edited by fate
Published by reality
Freely available on any streetcorner
David Trudel © 2013
Mainstream
It’s all distorted
The news
Facts pushed and pulled into rumors
Truth’s elasticity stretching beyond is to isn’t
Until we are left to question everything
Trust is collateral damage
When journalism disappears
Beneath a tide of economic interests
Suppressing any story deeper
Than the shallow but well dressed puppets who read
Soft spun press releases
Promoting depredations of resource extraction
Or the need to cut more social programs
To pay for tax reductions
So the stories we are fed
Are cats being rescued from trees
Stormy weather
The twin circuses of sports and entertainment
And the illusion of being included
In the bogus democracy of global corporatism
David Trudel © 2013
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