Cruelty To Books

The older I get the less I accept
The Bible, or any other book,
being thumped by bullies
who hold it up to the light
with their need to be right
whilst shouting arguments
and quoting said book,
as if it proves their punchline.

Hold The Front Page

The British Public will know it's press
has found a sense of proportion about itself,
long gone for them being a license to print money
for telling lies, based on covert activity, when instead
of proclaiming press freedom should be the measure
of everyone's choice
the public can get the kernel of a story in two paragraphs.
Rather than have to dig deep, only to find it buried
in the small print on the fourteenth page, by which time
they have been so thoroughly distracted that they don't
notice that the headline is unrepentantly telling them
something completely different.