Media

One thing I can't live without...is media.

Social Media.

It’s sorta like Journalism isn’t it?

Expedia dot com, when I need things speedy.

All I need is Media.

I check the news for some weather and come to find out I need to decide whether or not i should vote for a woman or a mad man.

Seems logical i guess.

All I need is Media.

I check the news for latest science discoveries to find that bubbles the cat is caught up the tree… again *sigh*.

All i need is Media.

I check the paper for the latest sports scores, to find another columbine massacre occurred on an elementary school's corridors...

All I need is Media?

You never know what to expect but you’ll always come to find…bad news.

Not news that is distasteful or disgraceful but bad like a paper cutting your finger,

bad like you went on a date with a cheerleader but her boyfriend deiced to bring her,

bad like waking up to go to work in Hiroshima during the first drop and making it home just in time to catch the second impact.

That really happened you know.

But Bad news like that.

Bad news that makes me fear the paper more than the gun,

bad news that that turns fun into run,

bad news that tells you another black boy who was unarmed was killed today.

Bad News like that.

News that you so badly want to be olds,

news that your tired of it getting told,

All i need is for Media to tell me stop making profit off of my problems...

Our news puts me in fear and disgrace the steam horn rings it’s time for another story to begin! Lets GO!

I feel like I’m running a race and the pace is getting faster!

I’m trying not to die in this place and my face feels plastered!

Blast blast!

There goes another black child, another pastor!

Fast  fast!

Print these pages fast fast faster.

They need a story they need a deadline, when my own lifeline is soon to be dead!

Pause! Stop the presses.

Stop pressing me flat like a piece of new paper.

Stop stretching me out.

Stop staining me black.

Stop stressing me out!

Make the news New again please!

Did bubbles make it down from that tree?

Or will i be on the front page being taken down from one first.

I cant live wihtout media, but I feel like media, lives off of me.

This poem is about: 
Me
My country

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