I am met by this low sun
and much less birdsong
than forty years before
when I was dawn-bagged
by the seven day round
of slotting news
then smudged
but verified mainly as fact
apart from The Sun
Today I no longer take
as read
the headlines

As if it is a politic farce
of staged denouements

of scripted turns

and off the plot
we are rantng runts

either way
it is
drama enough.