It is not news to say that most news
is bad news, consisting of reports
of earthquakes, pandemics, wars
and brutal changes of government.
The latest brutal takeover of power
starting with a vote, that after threats,
faked violence, and a rhetoric full of hubris
created a narrow but clear majority vote
for the most grasping leader, at his greedy height.
The new president, an old one four years out of office,
returned meaner and harder than before,
with 49.8 % of the popular vote, barely charged
for all the crimes he was well known for before.
For the second time he won by less than half the vote.
Now the world's media have to balance how to report
the angry new leader, as he rages against his enemies,
and even his allies, against their viewers' inherent sense
of wanting, and needing, to worry proportionately
about what they they know they can't control.
Still if government runs as it has in the past
viewers, readers, and listeners of world media
can count the days, 1460, 1459, 1458, and so on
until his last day of office. Then we can look in horror
at what remains of the levels of attempted humanity,
that the human wrecking ball has not destroyed.
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