“All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again, there is nothing new under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:8)
from
national newscasters
political pundits
television talking heads
to
local celebrities
small town coffee shops
gossip grapevines;
it’s
shocking indecency
another person’s tragedy
driveling trivia comedy
that
we know sells, as “news”–
whatever our itching ears want to hear.
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a poem in my pocket 
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