Beaten to a Pulp

Beaten to a Pulp

Look at the tree, what do you see?

Do you see communication, do you see the written word?

Sawn and pulped, a soup of mush, the newsprint of tomorrow.

Squeeze out and dry, roll by and by,

Do you see Headlines , do you see scoops?

Bleached and whitened, a continuous roll, the broadsheets of today.

Squashed and overjoyed, exposed in the tabloid.

Next time you see the tree, remember it is exclusive too.

Linda Prince