The Same Old Headlines This Morning . . .

The headlines always seem the same:

The president tweets something lame.

And soccer upsets in detail

Do int’rest me as much as braille.

Pollution in the China Sea

And ICE hostility.

While pundits by the score must prate

About the Fed’s new in’trest rate.

Those editors must all reuse

The same old stuff -- and call it news.

If they’d have subscriptions humming

How about the Second Coming?

Or a Yankees/Dodgers match

Played in marijuana patch?

When man bites dog, reporters write

It’s all the fault of the Far Right.

This morning’s online news report

Reads as prosaic as a wart.

Of course I’m second guessing here;

Not ev’ry scribe can be Shakespeare.

Forgive an old man’s grumpy spree;

My prostate hardly lets me pee . . .