A. Jayaprakash Jayaprakash Panicker - Times of tense reading

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Times of tense reading It is dead times These Dailies* bring in. Gory, ghastly and eerie And at times it stinks. Nose to nose they spread Rift, strife and violence. Democracy breathes hard To hold this pestilence. It’s a level playing field That keeps things at par Not with the ones who die For want of a share of their space But for those heinous ones That pry on the latter’s pie. Wars have been won Elections manipulated Calamities got salvaged Propaganda got rebirths Rifts got ironed out New rifts got surfaced and greatness thrusted upon those who least deserved it. These leaves of present history have inked the misfortunes of the weak and colonized in spilt blood and spoilt tears. In these weak times of tense reading Dailies call the shot in cold blood The custodian gets looted on a daily basis And the booty keeps the media goons myopic. *unhealthy press culture A. Jayaprakash Jayaprakash Panicker poemhunter.com/poem/times-of-tense-reading/