24 Hours News

24 Hours News

'I was seventeen/and I had to confess/ that my dreams were often wet/ watch her reading the news/ sat in front of her/ she told me about the tragedies of the day.'

First it was Diana then it was Lara in Berlin, reporting from somewhere in Madrid.
Now it is Andrea at Caldecott!!
It is dangerous to watch the news these days
to hear horrible stories about the world spurting out from these beautiful faces
- this world is warped. Beautiful faces are hired to tell real-time horror
The Beautiful Face is always so concern, so serious, so neutral
she must be sitting on the fence when reading out the news, but we can't see the lower half.
and the slight smile, with the eyes, she must have been practicing in front of the mirror,
the slight tilt of her head, the her wavy hair. 'The world is a mess but her hair is perfect'.
Her eyes on the script and looked up at you and smile once they switched from the footage of disaster to her again in the studio. Her eyes, only faithful to the script and your presence in front of the screen. She tilt her head slightly again.

facing you, on screen, as if she is only talking to you, you are a 39 year old bachelor or divorcee, who has, decided to stay in tonight, than to try your luck in a bar or club. You thought you, as an intellectual, an academic, a successful entreprenuer, executive, a man of the world, should show some concern for what is happening to this world. and you turn on the TV to watch a local news channel that claims to be regional if not international. And you saw her. Perhaps wanking could be better than one night stand. wanking to occasional images of her facing you, wanking to her voice accompanying images of rescue efforts, politicians clapping when another politicans came on stage to give a speech, soldiers in middle east, terrorists with AK-47 potinting to where we used to suppose God stays, Northeast Asia, Japanese bowing and bowing, Thai smiling, Indians crying, North Koreans clapping, South Koreans in a tussle, Chinese not smiling again, deadpan, currency of Mao, the machince calculates the amount, US on Chinese currency again, air pollution, assembly line, cars, students and NS men and particpants of a charity run, Indonesians demonstrating burning the banners they made, Italian MPs, another corruption scandal, got in to the car cutting through the reporters, overpaid footballers doing warm up wearing the something smilar to what the Bangladeshee workers are wearing when cutting grass or during road works, and another golf champion, another black guy and a white ball like a speck on the screen roll into a hole. I think it only took you a while. The world could really do with less images of the world. Stop making a picture out of everything we see.

and if you are elevated from wanker stalker to lover
that there might be the incident of her at the dinner table, opposite you, and you thought all the things she said about herself, her family, friends, and perhaps, you, is about the world - but why can't she be objective.

and it if you are relegated from lover to stalkers on youtube,
you might imagine everything she reports about the world, like after the evening she stood up and left angrily for work, or not wanting to talk to you after the fight or tiff [could be easily resolved, she will always be the first to speak again with in the next few hours, if you turn on the TV to see her talking, you noticed her eyes are still a little red] is all about you and the relationship between the two of you - must she be so subjective.