I hate the news.

I've been keeping up to date with it lately.
It's so frustrating to watch.
I've come to realize that the forced smiles
on the news anchors' faces irritates me
more than I originally thought it did.
Reports on drug deal after drug deal
after the same updates on that teacher
who allegedly kidnapped a student of hers,
who John Basile knew personally, I guess.
Another shooting, another stabbing, another fire.
I even got to see an old teacher of mine cry
on the news tonight. It was saddening.
All this is followed by a bleach whitened gleam of teeth
exclaiming that today was "such a nice day, wasn't it?"
And on with the weather.

Maybe it's just something about the local news that I don't like.
I like BBC. It's just as depressing, if not more so since it covers global events but. I don't know. I find it more interesting. Less personal, or something.
Which is also, (que scoff) sad, since it just goes to show how disconnected I am or feel that I am, from the rest of this planet, and its loss, and its suffering.
Man. This is heavy stuff. I'm going to stop now.

I missed The Office tonight, I was pissed.
xx