viral tragedy

oh our western privileged lives
are so boring
so mundane that
we keep our eyes glued to the screens,
be them big or small,
wide or tall,
compact or filling the
room,
these visual mishaps,
fresh new catastrophes,
murder rates, serial killers,
rapes, burning villages,
dead bodies strewn on the ground,
floods, oil spills, lightening striking
where the tornadoes &
the hurricanes haven’t yet
wrecked &
havoc
havoc
havoc!
another shooting here
another stabbing there &
its something to discuss
over the dinner table,
something to text, to twatter, to
facefuck,
so that our pitiful lives are
illuminated once more,
whilst the aliens pondering to
stop here to take a piss
at this intergalactic
rest stop,
watch our little feeble eyes
twitch,
with nothing going on behind them
but the intense need for more
tragedy.