MISTER MAGIC RADIO

mister magic radio told me lies
and lured me in to his sob stories
about how fast that woman’s house
caught on fire
and how the newborn baby boy
was found dead in a nearby river

but tragedies are found even closer
than miles away from the safety of my house.
why, just out of town
trigger-happy men skid bullets off their tongues
and teenage boys show their machete love
by cutting up everyone they see –

and mister magic radio loves
the gossip.