Experts on the News

experts on the news
wholesaling cheap wisdom at retail prices

experts with fireproof smiles
telling you how to 
get closer to your dog

why friendship's a reasonable investment

how to know when
love is more trouble than it's worth

experts on the news
will guide you through
the raw and exotic tribulations of a beauty
queen with cancer

explain the invisible
like a crossword puzzle

sort the fangs of war
into carefully ordered columns

attend a birthday party for horror
to which they'll bring
practical gifts

they attempt to chart the trade routes of 
volcanic sadness

with concepts so foreign to God
they might as well be
instruments of torture
designed to be used exclusively on children

I'm tired of falling into the 
holes in their eyes

I've had it with quotable martyrs
and the death of the truth by lethal injection

I can't comprehend people who
lie so religiously
you don't understand a word they say

or why doom is a product
that can name its own price

why some stunned slut of a reporter
can grin into a steel eye so fateful with power
it changes everything it sees

and give us his face
like a snot on a priceless stone

he touches his hair and smiles