First the glossy bits
Restaurants where everything seeps
that little pool of goo
Fall-out ads from charities they'll depress you too
Fashion photos - thank the lord, cheap is chic now, phew!
More to spend on furniture, holidays and you
Then the arts section
More reviews of more books you'll never
get to read
More reviews of more CDs, more than you'll ever need
A piece on some big film director (genius!), the fantastic life he leads
Your life - it's a disaster, get on with it, succeed
A peek at the travel
Jollies for the journalists - how could
you resist?
Extreme sports in war zones, for fun, blow the risk
Pages of flight prices - please, please, desist
Use this bit to line the bin, it really is the pits
Can you bear the news?
In amongst the rest lies the source
of its power
News, once the cause, now excuse of the hour
Some brilliance in there but wars can so sour
The recipes, décor, the race to be now-er
Business (in brief)
Suits, suits and more suits - blue,
black and grey
Mergers and takeovers, dollars away
They call it work but it sounds more like play
This is what other people do every day
Sport - for him
What a cliché we are - me to
arts, him with this
He flicks to his team, he is keen, he won't miss
Will he read the table tennis scores...
(If it's that or feminist poetry reviews then yes)
They lose, swear, back next week for more, it's absolute bliss
The rest
To sections forgotten I apologise
But the damned weekend papers weekly increase in size
They take all week to get you down and no airbrush can disguise
That without them we'd know less but end up just as wise
© Rachel Fox 2005
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