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Nightly News
© 1999 by Jennifer Farwell

 

Turned on the TV
(turn it off, turn it off)
Images flash by
(turn it off, turn it off)
Pixelized death show
(turn it off, turn it off)
We watch every night
(we're desensitized)

Switched over channels
(turn it off, turn it off)
Saw one bomb's destruction
(turn it off, turn it off)
Praise for the "good guys"
(turn it off, turn it off)
What about the dead?
(what's their legacy?)

Weeping from gray skies
(turn it off, turn it off)
Drowning in red floods
(turn it off, turn it off)
Who will remember?
(turn it off, turn it off)
Is this what we are?
(why can't we see?)

 

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