I remember when reading was disbelieving,
when the red top press made every day the same.
I remember when it was not worth asking
how many trees were felled to print
what would be forgotten the following day
where the paper the news was printed on
would be used to light fires, be recycled,
or left in forgotten spaces, to slowly rot away.
Now with the news being digital, and no more
self improving in character than it was before
the same staleness pervades, and bores me faster.
Only now entire landscapes are being left
poisoned and bereft of life, so that the latest
great leader in the denial of the obvious
can make their stand against the future,
where they are going to get most out of it, forever.
I'd be more amused if future pointlessness
in leadership was made to be as sustainable
as it was in the past, in days of newsprint,
when the tabloid press reigned supreme.
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