What do you Read when you Open the Newspaper? Jan. 8, 2025

Gary Hunter
Jan 8, 2025
1 min read

sports obituaries and weather

that’s my curiously shallow search

of the news

who scored how many points

who died

what do I wear today

the quicker I put that down

the faster I get back to mulling

I’m a big muller usually about

similarities in our obvious differences

my interest is to pull each of us

inside out and hold a candle to that

what’s to hide if our insides

look and act oddly the same

secrets always make headlines

have you noticed?

maybe that’s why I pass by

most news and head for some

early morning trivial honesty

before I head to the unprintable

those liquid mirrors of you and I

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