Disconnecting From You Now.....

Whatever The News is about
it always features The Self Important.
And if the events it tells us about are real
(and not made up merely to distract listeners),
then they happen so far from where listeners
are to the events are that they don't, can't, know
that they are meant to feel disconnected
from what they are listening to;
by design, distance creates distraction.

So don't worry when you want
to turn off your television or radio,
or their online equivalent,
because their talk makes you feel
like a silent extra in your own life,
or a bystander so far from the event
that your views don't really matter;
your response is entirely natural.

Do something else,
whatever you like,
to return your sense
of time and yourself
to who it rightly belongs.