The Oldest World Religion

is building walls,
behind which to keep ourselves in comfort.
The second oldest world faith is war
-destroying other people walls.
Religion in the modern world
builds walls that are not just physical.
Conversion is an immurement in words,
the better to multiply misunderstanding.

Journalism Is The Job

of taking the 'new' out of  news.
Everything journalists tell us
has happened has happened before.
Many times and in many places.
The words of reporters
leave their audience half-alive,
sleep walking through a past,
once solid, now gone.
Which is now our unconscious.
This half emptiness is our truest narrative,
and all the more so for the ease
of our denial that the paper we read
once breathed. Was once a  fully alive tree.