News: a fantasy

I catch up on the news by eliminating it, so that story-by-story it no longer exists. 

There’s no President telling fibs on the world stage, backed by a squadron of large flags of the country he or she represents. 

There are no reporters asking questions and writing answers in their reporter’s notebooks.

There are no camera’s, no 24-hour news feeds, no anchormen or anchorwomen, no talking heads, no commercial interruptions.

The bomb didn’t go off in Kabul and kill 3 innocent children, the missing girl wasn’t missing just as she wasn’t found dead in Wyoming. The Senator came to his senses and returned the bribe money from the coal industry, the same day Vladimir Putin did the right thing and resigned.

Results on Wall Street weren’t mixed—the rich got richer and the very very rich built spaceships so they could escape to outer space and float around in anti-gravity ambrosia. The Giants won and then they lost and then they won. How about those Giants!

The election that was stolen was discovered in a lost-and-found bin in Florida. Or was it Arizona? No questions asked if returned to the rightful owner.