Dialogues For The Deaf

When sarcasm passes for truth
more easily than sincerely meant enquiry
that is how we know that our mass media
has taken one too many shortcuts to be truthful,
and they are leaving behind who they report to
in the Gadarine rush to get the best headline
because that what raises their advertising revenue.

It does not matter that anger at racism
is quite rightly righteous, it is plain wrong.
Nobody needs add their false self to prove that.

But when we close the space where our doubts
about the best solutions might be shared
we lose the place where we can hear others and be listened to.