Journey of Words

False Impression

Town’sEyes and earsClatter keysFor submissionTo Thursday’s publicationIn time for morningCigarette, coffee, teaDigestion, reflection, commentaryAmongst curtain-twitching chatteratiLast-laughers wipe away final tearsDiscussion re-opens over beersThe Have-you-heard herdAnd Oh-my-LordsWeekly fed fresh bloodIn black and whiteGobbets of gossipNow newsworthy statusBeside reports of foreign placesWhere the nasty things resideLocal man witness to eruptionVillage couple caught in coupGrandmother’s fearHoliday will be… 

Town’s
Eyes and ears
Clatter keys
For submission
To Thursday’s publication
In time for morning
Cigarette, coffee, tea
Digestion, reflection, commentary
Amongst curtain-twitching chatterati
Last-laughers wipe away final tears
Discussion re-opens over beers
The Have-you-heard herd
And Oh-my-Lords
Weekly fed fresh blood
In black and white
Gobbets of gossip
Now newsworthy status
Beside reports of foreign places
Where the nasty things reside
Local man witness to eruption
Village couple caught in coup
Grandmother’s fear
Holiday will be cancelled
Due to either rising seas
Famine, fire or disease
When the Four Horsemen
Galloped through
The editor dismissed them
As not news

~

n.b. NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 10 prompt: Enduring, amusing snippets of news.

CLP 10/04/2024

The author

Chris Perry

Related posts