Your Poetry Dot Com - Editing Reality

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Take out the parts we would rather not know!

Movies and games show shootings and gore
But TV news shields us from all that and more.
Car crashes, stabbings, and death don’t seam real;
Upsetting our dinner, unless its concealed.

They show half the story but leave the truth out.
Hoping our children won’t have to find out.
Then we wonder why kids think that shootings pretending;
When we have so carefully hidden the ending.

Perhaps if we saw what the newcasters see;
Bleeding, unedited, real life TV;
Showing the truth of what mayhem was done;
Fewer might walk into school with a gun.
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Editing Reality
Date: Friday, 4th May 2018 @ 11:14:58 PM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: softerware

Reality TV? I dont think so.
Take out the parts we would rather not know!

Movies and games show shootings and gore
But TV news shields us from all that and more.
Car crashes, stabbings, and death don’t seam real;
Upsetting our dinner, unless its concealed.

They show half the story but leave the truth out.
Hoping our children won’t have to find out.
Then we wonder why kids think that shootings pretending;
When we have so carefully hidden the ending.

Perhaps if we saw what the newcasters see;
Bleeding, unedited, real life TV;
Showing the truth of what mayhem was done;
Fewer might walk into school with a gun.

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