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News Values (some time last November) (Sonnet) by Nicholas Jones

Switch on TV; let's hope there is something That will divert me from all of this shit Shut out all of my worries concerning The modern world and what goes on in it But then: NEWSFLASH; this programme is delayed We interrupt our schedules to bring you Despatches from the front line of today Reports on happenings that must be viewed. This could be anything, I think, could be Explosions, war: I see inside my head Destruction from the air or from the seas Please Lord, let there not be too many dead. But then the headline comes and they tell me Butler who did not steal has now been freed.

-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 6-May-03/6:41 AM
oh come on the ending is the only good thing in the entire piece! "Butler who did not steal has now been freed." -- genius! You build up the tension, and the reader thinks it's going to be another Nicholas Jones epic about political issues and the labour party and welsh suffering and war in iraq, but then when the news comes on the headlines are just laughably mundane. Of course, rather than seeing the funny side of all this, I'm sure Nicholas Jones is deeply disappointed with the quality of "News Values" in modern society. "Why do we care more about butlers than we do about human suffering and welsh issues?" Well I've got news for you, Nicholas: if you want to watch your "Carry On" films in peace, along with all the other working class Labour bumpkins, then I suggest you get Sky TV rather than spending all your time (not to mention taxpayer's money) writing a PhD about it.




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