Reading the news

by Henry Burt Stevens
authorsden.com/henrybstevens
hankvlog.blogspot.com

reading the news is as
a child's top the faster
you pump the faster it spins

wobble spin dodge and spin
when the published denials
say it isn't so

we have confirmation it's true
from media that's bought and paid for
cuz the advertisers call the shots

greed is good consumption's better
stay ahead of the Jones's
mussent let them catch us

who wants to go to a poor church
one that looks like a hobo's camp
what's needed is glass and spires

miles of parking lots mega
Sunday seating many thousands
rock bands power amplifiers a bookstore

if God had loved the poor he
wouldn't have made us able to be rich
add this all up, lay your paper down, relax.