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7 O'Clock News 7 O'Clock News7 O'Clock News by ~Aristaea
I hear them
on the radio, sending waves of light flashing across the globe—
gossamer threads traced upon the ancient astrolabe.
I see them
on television, resplendent in all the Technicolor brilliance
made possible by a cathode ray tube near you.
I feel them
through the haze of twenty-first century post-modern,
Silicone Valley digitally-enhanced,
attention-deficit phenylketoneuric,
soy latte, blue Lake #40
ennui
that my generation latches onto with the same enthusiasm
with which my grandparents' generation sucked in the noxious fumes
of pre-embargo Cuban cigars
and industrial-green lead paint.
I t
Sta.sh
