"there's good news and bad news

which do you want first?" 

                 "I'll have the bad news."

                Thus        Murdoch became rich on human weakness

sad but true that this philosophy is cheap to run

like an old friend clapped out expecting little.

 

GOOD NEWS COMES AT A PREMIUM!

(well it wouldn't be cheap 'cause it's special)

 

with bad news you can paper a room

in many shades of gloom

Good news comes in discreet packages

presents from on high

shy

of the confessional.

Someone walking tall loving life will carry it

with a silly grin

or superciliously. out of reach

of the dismal and the desperate

who patiently knock at the door marked

"bad news within."