The News

Why do we watch the television news?
It always gives distress.
Pictures of bodies and burning in hews
Of darkness that don't hide the mess.

Is it something like a fairground ride
That makes your centre spin?
People queue for hours beside
Such rides just to get in.

Perhaps we feel we deserve such pain.
That could be it I guess.
And so when asked will I spin again
I'll always answer yes.