Welcome all to the first milestone one week of the post a poem for a day challenge I have set myself.
Word of the day "vaunted" meaning boast about or praise (something), especially excessively"
Bland Morning
In the news today
White noise
Black man
Blasted point blank
No remorse
The much vaunted white man
Shining like nitroglycerin
Yawning I reach for my cereal bowl
My bowels tremble and settle
Processing the lactose and sugar
Tsunami down the city goes
Like dominos
No survivors
Now on my mobile texting this or that person
Facebook App, news feed reveals another Puff post
Like that
But wish there was an unlike button
Malnourished the boys
Skin sticks to his bones
Flies feast on his cracked bleeding skin
Some people in some country
Were bombed there remains
A plume of grey white gas on
Television screen
I turn the remote in my hand
Depress the button
The images and sound are sucked back inside
Out the door
Down the stairs
Scroll through my news app
Fire in the neighbouring suburb
The family a mother, father
Little boy five-ish stare
In other news DC and Marvel
Continue their war for supremacy
Disney expands its corporate branches
Some pink faced fellow rambles for the hope of presidency
Important issues
Puff and fluff
I yawn and put it away,
Back in my pocket.
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