Too Much News Blues

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Too Much News Blues

I’m drowning in news

                Coming at me from all corners.

Plenty of views

                Trying their hardest to warn us.

Putin is dying.

                Trump is bound to lose.

Gaza is frying.

                I’ve got the too much news blues.

The planet’s heating up.

                Trump’s turning up the gas.

Drinking from an evil cup

                Dancing to rotten jazz.

Can’t turn on the TV

                Without blown up tank crews

Death and destruction:

                I’ve got the too much news blues.

The Tories left a black hole.

                The Republicans are all mad.

Results wrong in every poll.

                Feels like we’ve been had.

Wallowing through the info

                Trying not to blow a fuse.

Seeking out the truth

                 I’ve got the too much news blues.

Billionaires spread disinformation

                Manipulating us.

Brain inflammation:.

                Thrown under the bus.

Scratting a living

                Paying all our dues.

Life is unforgiving.

                I’ve got the too much news blues.

Opher – 15.11.2024

Never has a world been so full of news and reporting. Never has there been so much disinformation. Various factions vie to tell us lies. Governments and politicians, businessmen and media. Most of it is wrong; some of it is deliberate misinformation meant to confuse us.

Algorithms kick in to boost whatever view we take.

Our beliefs are magnified, nurtured and distorted.

We’re being manipulated by devious people for their gain.

Nothing is clear. Nothing is black and white.

We’re being lied to.

We can’t believe anything.

Conspiracy gets dafter by the minute.

It threatens the very fabric of society.

                 I’ve got the too much news blues.

Poetry – Crisis

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Crisis

Crisis!

We’re in a crisis!

Rising prices,

Rising seas,

Falling trees!

Crisis!

We’re in a crisis!

                Spinning dices,

                                Spinning truth,

                                                Denying proof!

Crisis!

We’re in a crisis!

Opher – 27.9.2019

Has the world ever been in as big a crisis as this? We have the rise of right-wing politics spawning white supremacists and Neo-Nazis. We have populist leaders spreading fake news and undermining all our experts. We have a climate catastrophe and mass extinction.

I hope it sorts itself out soon.

Life has become unnecessarily confusing.

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I must admit that there are times when I am not the most organised of people. But right now I am confused. My telephone has stopped working and my Sky+ has stopped working. They may well be interconnected. I am not sure who to contact.

At one time I got my electricity from the electricity people.

My gas from the gas people.

My house insurance from the house insurer.

My water from the water board.

My internet from the internet people.

TV from Sky. (I know, I know – I’m embarrassed).

Now you shop around and get them from elsewhere through Go Compare sites.

I now get my electricity from some place abroad that sells gas, likewise my gas from the water board and water from the electricity. I can’t even remember who my car and house insurance are with! I’m not sure what will happen if I get a breakdown.

My internet comes from BT – I think – but it could be Sky – I think I changed!

I change so often I can’t keep up. I always think I should keep a central record of who I’m with and when it runs out but I never do!