THREE

BOOKS



good books
  are
  all
  ticks
on a checkboard / on some meta to-do list

  they
  are
plucked
from
the
universal mind
  by
    typer 
      brains 
oiled and loaded / rickety and keen

reports filed 
  and
  job
  done 

oh to be a chosen paper saint



HEADLINES 1


  the 
headlines of the world

drag the flowers
  
  into

  the 
  
  shade



HEADLINES 2


unhealthy hysterical preoccupation
  with
  easy
  generalisation


the
  truth
    is
      in
        the 
          small
            print 


  but
  who 
cares about that ?

specific detail 
and
hard fact
  is 
  no 
  ones 
tagline