GROANING LIKE FRANKENSTEIN

GROANING LIKE FRANKENSTEIN
by matt burns

Carbon monoxide killed the family while they slept in their Maryland home.
oooooooooooh
A cop in South Carolina is charged with murder after shooting a black man.
uuummmhhhh
Russian spies are behind the hacking of White House computers.
uuuuuuuuuuh
Isis is using social media to recruit American women.
uuummmmmhhhhhh oooooooooooh uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

Frankenstein is not watching the news.
The sounds are coming out of me
Involuntarily.
O misery!

The terrorist at the news desk 
has mastered his intonation of fright.
My primal buttons 
of fear 
and loathing 
Are pressed just right.
He has me wrapped around his finger 
oh so tight.
If I don't keep groaning like a miserable Frankenstein
I'll feel so guilty tonight.

WATCHING SKY9 POLICE CHASES

WATCHING SKY9 POLICE CHASES

by matt burns

I'm sitting here at my computer

I drank a lot of beer tonight

It’s about 3:30am

I'm watching videos on YouTube

Los Angeles police-chase videos

Helicopter Sky9 something or other

I find the chases so exciting

I'm trying to figure out what's worse

The criminals speeding down freeways at 120-per

Or the news people that are drooling

Masturbating

And

Almost

Hoping

That somebody gets hit and killed

They say that they fear 'the worst'

But I can hear it in their voice

They want the worst

However

I have to admit

So don't I

It must be in my blood

It must be in my primal nature

I get off on the worst

At least part of me does

That’s why I can’t stop watching

THE WORLD MAY BE OK

THE WORLD MAY BE OK

by matt burns

Sometimes you wonder about the world

And there’s just thing after thing

After thing after thing

That makes you say we’re all screwed

The world seems so doomed

But when I walk down the street near my house, with my dog

I don’t see much doom and gloom

It all looks OK to me

My entire dark outlook on the world

Has come from TV and the news

It’s the news that paints such a dark depiction

If it was hundreds of years ago

I guess the world could be the same it is today

But there wouldn’t be any news

So I would walk down the street

See the trees blooming in the breeze

And the blue skies with puffy white clouds

And all would be well

The world would be just fine

And that would be the only world I knew

The only difference today

Is the news

Maybe the news is a form of psychological warfare

It exists to make us think the world is doomed

And we fear and loathe

And we get depressed

And we despair

And we get debilitated or even paralyzed

And we don’t do all that much

Because what’s the point?

And then we’re easier to control

And we’re easier to be turned into consumers

More easily turned into human resources

“Yeah, the world’s doomed

So just watch your reality TV

And talent shows

And football games 

Rot your brain

Because if you actually do something

It’s not going to be worth anything anyway”

I guess the wars are out there somewhere

And I guess so aren’t the murders and rapes

And the child molesters

And the thieves

The corrupt politicians

And the bad storms

And all the other indications of the

End

Of

Times

But when I walk down the street 

All is just fine

And that’s my reality

The reality portrayed in the news is constructed

Weaving separate threads of negativity together

To create one quilt of negative reality

But that reality is really just a construction

Not an actual reality

If you remove yourself from the news

And take a walk down your street

Really, the world is kind of OK