Newspaper

I stand on the train
reading other people's newspapers
Second hand second hand news
Of what he said about her
and what the jury was told
What is true today was not true yesterday
and will not be true tomorrow
History is being rewritten, even now
as I read it over a shoulder
back to front
The paper thrown away
to be pulped
The words soaked away
Squeezed out of it
Until it is rolled out again, paper thin and reborn
As news