seen but not heard

by Stuart Buck

Tuesday 28th July 2015 1:48 pm

To the BBC News,

When I look outside my window

I do not see famine

I do not see rapists and murderers

I do not see pit-bulls mauling children

I do not see poverty

Or Aids

I do not see the failings of the health system

Or a cocaine snorting politician

I do not see people growing old

And dying

I do not see gangs of feral youths

Stabbing immigrants

For iPhones

I do not see cancer

I do not see the rain

I do not see obesity

I do not see guns

Rappers

Grand Theft Auto

The movies of Eli Roth

Or anything else causing violence

I do not see prostitutes

Or drug dealers

I see two sheep

One chicken

And lots of hills

Please report this at once

To cheer everyone up.

Comments

Graham Sherwood

Wed 29th Jul 2015 12:46

Balance is all Stu!

On any particular day out walking with my wife we can be a) optimistic about the life we see in this big melting pot called Milton Keynes or we can be b) totally disillusioned that some people can shit anything up if they are a mind to.

It takes me minutes to get out into fields for a good deep breath. Personally I think we all suffer from world conflict fatigue.

M.C. Newberry

Wed 29th Jul 2015 01:27

I like to think that poetry serves varied purposes: to
entertain/please and/or challenge via its form and subject matter, and to stimulate thought and opinion on the
last mentioned according to perceived worth.
But that's a personal POV of course. Right - off my soap
box.

raypool

Tue 28th Jul 2015 18:57

Here's my two penn'orth Stu. Highly amusing in a dark way. Thank God for a sense of proportion. If people get too blasé about all the misery, it might actually prevent some of the rubber necking in motorway accident queues!

M.C. Newberry

Tue 28th Jul 2015 16:32

I have been around long enough to recall when TV News
was an event programme and treated accordingly.
With the advent of global media and 24 hour TV, there is
the tendency by broadcast companies to turn the
private issues public and individual issues into general
interest - as if we have a duty to share in the misery,
inadequacies and cruelties found here and in "less happier lands".
The phrase "compassion fatigue" has been the
regrettable result and we have become less
sympathetic, inured even, to the plight of others. This
takes on added relevance when our people are refused
help and medical treatment on grounds of cost while our
politicians (part of that global mindset) are busy sending
our billions abroad in one guise or another, apparently
unaware (or uncaring?) of the biblical parable - to
remove the mote from one's own eye before trying to
remove it from someone else's.

Stu Buck

Tue 28th Jul 2015 14:35

ah perhaps!

actually i wrote this after watching the great bill hicks say this...

'You watch the news these days? It's unbelievable. You think you just walk out your door, you're immediately gonna be raped by some crack-addicted, AIDS-infected pitbull.'

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