Swiss bus crash kills 28
Disaster News Network, 15 March 2012
It’s the static-charged thunderhead of anguish
that drives them wild,
the helicopter crashing on the set of John Landis
all the more poignant when the victim is a child.
Imagine then the frenzy
in the press-room when the body count gets unveiled,
the unexplained mountain crash, the gory disassembly
of 28 Belgian kids,
the trauma of survivors, the wanton sycophancy
of reporters hounding them in their hospital beds,
then beaming from the backlot
their grief and mourning direct to where you live,
bringing the shit to the maggot.
(c) 2012 Slush Poet
Note:
The actual headline attached to this story was ‘Swiss bush crash kills 28’.
05:11 am EDT, March 15, 2012
Brilliant! And so appropriate. I am finding some media's increasing hunt for sensation and shameless intrusion on people's grief harder to stomach.
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