Diplomacy used to be the art
of 'saying the quiet part quietly',
and leaving the diplomats to get on
with tasks required of them.
But with modern wars of attrition
diplomacy has become headline news,
as day after day each shift in position
prompts a new speculative quote
fills the acres of online print
and hours of radio journalism.
If only, I think, we did not need
the quiet part to be said at all.
but with a 'bread and circuses' media
feeding us whatever jot and tittle
of gossip has fallen from the leaders table
we know less and less of what
is actually going on than we ever knew
when we knew nothing at all.
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