No news is complete
without tales of murder, rape, kidnapping,
incest, or theft.
More morbid than these happenings
is our appetite for their coverage.
Is it that the more colorful, decadent,
sickly the act
the more normal, decent and absolved
we are by our outrage?
Murder, rape, kidnapping, incest or theft must be
the only taboos left for a society
where almost everything else
can be rationalized
helped by psychology
excused by evolutionary need.
Sports sate our craving for domination
success, vengeance, validation.
Arts display our untapped consciousness.
With the absence of the cold war
or a damnable enemy,
what are we to struggle against?
Murder, rape, kidnapping, incest or theft
says the news.
without tales of murder, rape, kidnapping,
incest, or theft.
More morbid than these happenings
is our appetite for their coverage.
Is it that the more colorful, decadent,
sickly the act
the more normal, decent and absolved
we are by our outrage?
Murder, rape, kidnapping, incest or theft must be
the only taboos left for a society
where almost everything else
can be rationalized
helped by psychology
excused by evolutionary need.
Sports sate our craving for domination
success, vengeance, validation.
Arts display our untapped consciousness.
With the absence of the cold war
or a damnable enemy,
what are we to struggle against?
Murder, rape, kidnapping, incest or theft
says the news.
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