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Her Daily News Kirsten Anderson |
Her Daily News A shadow follows the woman Whispering, nodding, and laughing Flourishing by both sun and star Swift and sudden while she falters. It delivers with a practiced fling Her personalized tabloid paper That lands smack on her head Or square in her stomach-knot. She hesitates, not wanting to read Yet helpless in headline-rubbernecking Concise, precise tidings of despair Addictive nuggets of junk-food thought. DIVORCED MOTHER FAILS AGAIN! DIET DISASTER, FALLS OFF WAGON! UNRULY TEEN SON RUNS AWAY! WHO LET HER OUT LOOKING LIKE THAT? Someone keeps this messenger employed With a daily routine of bad tidings And sets the press for the typeface In letters half-medieval, half-alien. She destroys the phantom paper Defenses trained like guard dogs Unwilling and perhaps just unable To see her own name on the masthead. Kirsten Anderson [Return to Psychopoetica home page] ©The contents of this page are copyright protected.
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