I get weird thoughts in the shower. Some people sing, some dance, some just stand there and let water serve as their yoga, I get weird ideas. Like the idea that playground rhymes and children’s ditties need to be updated. “Ring Around the Rosies” is so… 14th century, don’t you think?
I was also thinking about all these magazines at the checkout stand, and how there’s an industry dedicated to photographing well-known people and finding ways to knock them down. So-and-so has three months to live! Missy X caught cheating on suffering hubby… again! Seriously? We don’t have better things to spend our resources on, there aren’t better ways to spend our time and money?
And during the election season the problem gets magnified when the “news” programs get involved is sorting out the different layers of dreck.
The following is what happens when all these thoughts come together in the shower. To the tune of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.”
Three Cheers
Create a popular hero,
Promote someone from a zero,
Create a national hero…
And ruin them in the press!Let media do what’s best!
The public can do the rest!Create a popular hero…
And ruin them in the press!Pa-pa-parazzi!
Pa-pa-parazzi!
Pa-pa-parazzi!
That last part, that’s the old “hip-hip-hooray!” Not sure it works.
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**snort** So true!
:~)
Pa-pa-parazzi! Love it, David!
You and Elaine need to get together – this is as good as her Political Verses.
It really is a disturbing trend…your poem is spot on, and scary! A.