Poem 313

Compassion fatigue … even before the 24/7 news cycle you could get buried, see all the same patterns and stories become circular …

( I like how breaking the word clacking helps to imitate the sound of a prayer wheel … )

The News

Africa is eating itself
Tibet in ruins
                            I chew on these days
sleeping and working
cradled in the world
passing on from disaster to disaster
the idiot clack-
ing
       of a prayer wheel

I need an operation
to let daylight in
need the knife
to pour sense into me
                                             I don't want to read the news
any more
I don't want to think
about what I have to do
tomorrow

cover the eyes
of all the dead people
                                             I understand
how the world works

to do nothing
for anyone
is so tiring