Ripped from the Headlines

Most folks don't even spend much time
Reading over headlines news
Or watching glammed up spokesmodels
Reading script scrolling before
High-tech camera lenses.
Not anymore, anyway.

Most folks don't even want to know
What the headlines say today--
Because beyond the Entertainment
And Travel sections lie a gritty
Cesspool of a Reality
No one cares to see.

Most folks don't realize that
Everything they once knew--
And still hold in their hearts to be true--
Does not exist as it once did.
Maybe the DO suspect it, deep down, but
No one wants to believe it.

Most folks read over headlines
But avoid reading the fine print
Because it is in all the tedious reading
That one might "read between the lines"
And realize that something is amiss.
(No one wants to admit it.)

Most folks live day-to-day, blissfully
Oblivious to the stirring winds
Breezing past them, beneath them;
And I wonder, when the quake
Causes earth to swallow them if
"No one will notice it."

There's "Most Folks" and then there's "Me";
I wonder the responsibility in SEEING
Yet being utterly POWERLESS to do
Or say anything to Right the Wrongs.
What can this girl do, please? Can
No one can tell me?

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This poem was written in the a.m., after reading news headlines only, online.