The Girl on the Front Page

The girl on the front page winked at me
while people inside died to be free.
While disease and disaster took their toll
she showed her perfect teeth and laugh at it all.

The girl on Page 3 thought long and hard
and recommended buying a Lotto cared.
When asked about the state of the Middle East
she lifted up her shirt and smiled to please

We happily discourse on feral youth,
sexualising children, scroungers: the truth
is, most of what we have is manufactured rage
from the girl who winked at me from the red-top page.