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Silent night, holy night.
An airstrike last night hit a school,
killing at least a dozen children.
All is calm, all is bright.
Another assassination
attempt this morning.
Round yon Virgin,
Mother and Child.
The veteran suicide epidemic
continues this year.
Holy Infant so tender and mild.
U.S. officials pledged today
to send military advisors
to the conflict.
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Nuclear missile modernization
received additional funding
this week.
Sleep in heavenly peace.
God bless our troops tonight,
defending democracy,
world-wide.
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#poetry
This poem was inspired by Simon and Garfunkels “Silent Night / 7 O’Clock news” which mixed singing of silent night and news headlines from 1966.
Around that same time, in his book Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan was discussing how “if you remove the dateline from the newspaper, it’s a poem.” So, I wanted to apply this observation in my own poem.
Lastly, I wished to update Simon and Garfunkels work a bit and make a piece that should, sadly, reflect the world for the next sixty years by using fictional headlines that probably will be true (and perhaps they already are).
An airstrike last night hit a school,
killing at least a dozen children.
All is calm, all is bright.
Another assassination
attempt this morning.
Round yon Virgin,
Mother and Child.
The veteran suicide epidemic
continues this year.
Holy Infant so tender and mild.
U.S. officials pledged today
to send military advisors
to the conflict.
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Nuclear missile modernization
received additional funding
this week.
Sleep in heavenly peace.
God bless our troops tonight,
defending democracy,
world-wide.
------------
#poetry
This poem was inspired by Simon and Garfunkels “Silent Night / 7 O’Clock news” which mixed singing of silent night and news headlines from 1966.
Around that same time, in his book Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan was discussing how “if you remove the dateline from the newspaper, it’s a poem.” So, I wanted to apply this observation in my own poem.
Lastly, I wished to update Simon and Garfunkels work a bit and make a piece that should, sadly, reflect the world for the next sixty years by using fictional headlines that probably will be true (and perhaps they already are).