The Dead Horse on CNN
The dead horse on CNN
was floating there
in the floodwater
It didn't have too much to say for itself
Still, they kept filming / zooming / changing angles
Strictly for our benefit, of course
So we could see just how dead the horse was
And, boy, it was one dead horse
The lady even said:
And here we have a dead horse in the water
So I guess this was for the people
that had never seen a dead horse before
and thought it might be a ham sandwich
or a brown sofa bed with built-in hooves
You know, instead of the dead horse that it clearly was
All in all
I have to say
as far as dead horses go
it was absolutely riveting journalism
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Ha! My kind of poem! Evocative, informative, insightful. Is this what they call iambic pentameter? It's what I call good. So that's two of us.
Me too, I like this. I like the images and the tone of the voice. Most of all, I like the honesty of it.
It was for people who hadn't seen THIS dead horse before. Best to avoid too much CNN.
There's a great Philip Levine Poem about Hiroshima called "The Horse" you should check out if you haven't read it before. Reminds me of your piece.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=18616
maybe they zoomed around the horse in case people thought the horse was just sleeping.
not knowing that's not how horses sleep.
cnn is useful for those revelations.