When Ageism Is Positive

How seriously we take 'The News'
with all its political bias and views
depends very much on our age.

The younger we are
the more we are meant

to part of the economy
which forces us to listen more

to the views of 'the powerful'

where the less we know, 

the less we know what to make of it.

The older we are the more satire
we have absorbed and the more
the satire gives us an immunity.

Until one day we are older 

than the leaders of the country

we live in and can look down

on their relative youth 

from our seniority

and know that the mistakes

the youthful leader is about to make

has been made in the past

and it did not work then either