Good News Gone
(a response not in kind but in
its way from A Reading Writer—
Thanks, Rosema!)
There is an old Christian
Song at Christmas time—I’m
Sure such songs arise from
Other roots at other times
That serve this way as well:
Near the start, a word is
Given then repeated
News!
Song goes, News! News!
Not good or bad, it’s simply
News
As it turns out, this news is
Pretty good (Mister Thurber,
You can look it up), though
The draw is simply crying
“News!”
When was the hawking of
An event simply unqualitied
As news? When did we hear
News! and come to buy the
Paper from the child who
Holds an overburdened
Bundle?
We buy, we read, and then
We know virtue of the
Experience: happy, tragic,
Valorous, vice-filled
We wait to find out,
Withholding judgment and
News-buying, anyway
If reason proves itself
Through evidence, then we
Have an answer here
Wait, don’t rush, don’t judge
‘Til learning more—in fact,
Don’t judge
For learning stops with
Judging,
Must I confess




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