HEADLINES

wed 7 AM
grab yesterdays paper
off the coffee table
outside the dispensing pharmacy window
and
turn
the
yelling pages
while the kettles bubbles and then clicks
and
subsides into a neat spray of steam

footballers wages 
and MPs soft prisons
and proposals to adopt insurance policies into the NHS

i 
click
and fume
into a neat spray of steam

i see the bad and the wrong and the mistakes and the bullshit
clear as mediterranean summer mornings -
the
reward for haircuts
the
ignorance of dim quick fixes
the
bar for heroes and role models is skewed in cracked mirrors
and
slides
dangerously low

i bin it
drink my tea
no milk
no sugar