I wrote this verse last year but given the current topics of today's news headlines I felt that it was still relevant.

For the mind is always under construction
with something other than correct grammar structure
and am I always sure of myself, no, of course not.
Such things are for spokesmen (as seen on TV)
pursuing to create a diverse reality
of information to be put on display
each month, each week, with a spectacular array
of timely remembrances and upcoming celebrations
of wars and disasters and holiday vacations
all sharing the profits of deteriorating nations.

The world is for sale, have you not heard,
they must sale everything you can trust them and their words
from cars to computers, phones and denim jeans
with a face and a name, a hero put to shame,
who cares they all get paid don't they.

"Yeah I'll take the wrap" and the check "thanks for that,"
I'll play the bad guy while another does the crime
so we can all be known to history
as conquering citizens of an open economy
that encourages new ideas and faces to seek -
a step into the lime light, be tomorrows headlines,
rebellion living the high life, that wouldn't change for the spotlight -
And all in the next moment their names fade away,
their faces no longer worthy but oh hold on, wait!
This is the new thing a step of word stringing
sounds a lot like the last guy saying,
"you can trust us for all your families needs."
They offer a product, something refined
and often insulting to allure and align
the average person, the depressed teenagers,
who views their futures as some business guys ledger.

Young families are confused they struggle and grope,
while media machines rush to push crisis over hope,
while we're all about our daily routines
average people's eyes staring at pixel screens
looking for something to improve their lives
beyond the mixed messages in entertainment's disguise.

Jade Dane Jaspers