Of All the Headlines in the World

Yes, Friends, of all the headlines in the world

In recent weeks, this one deserves first place:

USA Today reports, "Fence Jumper Got Farther

Into White House [Than Originally Reported]."

I had to make that last phrasal contribution

Because that's what they meant to say, right?

So the story goes that this former military man

Scales the White House walls, proceeds to run

Like an Olympian across the unguarded lawn 

(Because who in a million years would ever think

They'd have to guard the White House lawn?)

And actually makes it through the front door.

But there's more than our Modern Day Patriots

First reported:  This man made it farther than we knew!

He apparently easily mowed down the midget woman

Placed at the door by the Secret Service, and darted

Down a hallway and up an elevator before anyone 

On Planet Earth could stop him from his mission.

What was his mission, exactly?  

To take down our Leader?  His family?

Who commissioned this to happen?

Allowed it?  (Because we don't really believe

This JFK Lone Wolf Theory, do we?

I mean, have we ever really believed that?)

If this were a movie, I'd understand:

Maybe he's a super-villain that S.H.I.E.L.D. is chasing?

Maybe that's why he got that far without a bullet to the brain?

Maybe he's the new rogue X-Men character,

Trying to convince the Leader that people

With supernatural superpowers are really no threat at all?

Nay, This is Real Life, Friends; and I'm wondering

Why no one is talking about how and why--and who

Has put a target on the back of our Leader?

I don't believe for one minute that this man

Did this on his own.  No matter what you media say,

Or how you spin it, I don't believe it. And I'm not alone.

You can print your stories, and panel discuss for hours

On your pseudo-intellectual programs where the loudest

Mouths from Sea to Shining Sea shout their opinions

For the benefit of all the remote control button pushers;

But there are those of us, and I'll say it again, 

Who are not moved by your circus show.

While you're busy taking callers and discussing endlessly

About how So-and-So should get fired because, obviously,

This was the Governmental Oversight of the Century

(And do you think we can get a book deal out of this?),

Some Ones are out there now, RIGHT NOW, 

Collaborating and strategizing on their next attempt.

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Another poem based on headlines.

10-16-14