War And Rumour Management

 In these days that we could fairly describe
as 'times of war and rumour', where any sense
of central authority seems to be AWOL,
and the media narratives that we used
to reassure each other with have lost their shape,
from too many actors of state thrusting themselves
onto the world stage before they got their lines
I find myself patient as I wait for the narrative
that explains what is actually changing, 
what the world is changing to - where the present
more resembles past, better managed war and rumour,
that is more clearly resolved by recent goings on.