The Media, and Why We’re Frightened

Jump over fires, burn away sins

Violence still continues

Disintegrating into chaos

A witch-hunting campaign.

Amen to that!

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Drunk on Hallucinogens

Witchdoctors

“Witchdoctors”

Stimulus Sale—Stimulate your tastebuds!

Get your groove on

Enjoy the bragging rights

For the rest of your life.

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Service by publication

“service” by “publication”

Perversion; Pornography

Incest

To Joshya Miller & any

& All unknown fathers.

Stock up and save!

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Squalid, Windowless

Driven to Severe Extremes.

Sometimes in front of the children.

“Oh, God, think of the children!”

Oh, please.

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A bag of candy; guilty pleas

Framework

America loses faith in organized religion

One is love-thy-neighbor

The other drives away

With hell fire

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Witchdoctors

“Witchdoctors”

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Spirited away to secret locations

Any flavor! Any flavor!

Warning! It sounds like a hairsplitter!

Warning!

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business is cyclical

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Welcome Changes

has become an

ugly thing.

Commentary:

In a similar vein to what the last poem in this anthology is, this is a poem composed almost entirely of snippets of a local newspaper. It was wrote for my creative writing class, and was the first poem of the year. Yeah. This is whats in the paper, folks. No wonder why Americans are afraid of each other, no wonder why they lock their doors at night. I don't watch television often because its depressing. If it isn't an infomercial, people are dead. If it doesn't make my penis bigger like magic, its family friendly, dumbed down trash.

I'm bitter.