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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Dark · #2139050
Our troubled world.
Television

Television, that damnable thing,
Once parents' stress and a child's release,
Now serves only to deliver the daily death toll.

A bombing here, a shooting there;
Tragedy replaces comedy
And hopelessness takes the stage.
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