Head On

Head On
By Tatiana Pahlen

I’m petrified to watch the news,
trapped between two rivals,
The CNN or Fox Channel views,
in a scuffle to enlarge
their rating levels,
both induce
suffering infomercials;
All I hear in loud perks:
“Head On,
Apply directly where it hurts.”
The news is pharmaceutical!

Can we be cured from these mass headaches,
inflated by the media;
Endless threats from Chinese toys,
from tainted fish or wheat gluten?

More on Stock Market outrage:
The mortgages are failing;
“Apply directly where it hurts,”
if you arrange coverage.

But how can you soothe this pain
When war is far from over?
Death scores again surface in vain;
callous to absorb:

apply directly where it hurts,
though, you may survive foreclosure...