The Wreck of Your Life on the Evening News

<p>The Wreck of Your Life on the Evening News </p><p>(a poetic description)</p><p></p><p>The Wreck of Your Life on the Evening News is about what is </p><p>at the heart of the heroics (and heartache) of being an American. </p><p>As in Your nephew saw it-the fatal-car-crash screen footage</p><p>on the evening news. Complete with footage of the blood-</p><p>and-brain-spatter the rest of the mayhem you had caused.</p><p></p><p>He ushered a son away from the TV. Offered a magazine.</p><p>Mercy was the Playboy opened to distract your kid with</p><p>breasts summoning like some kind of roadside signage.</p><p>The poems about deliverance and other less dire potentialities</p><p>real and true. Point being if we dare hope at least that act of faith</p><p></p><p>will be built on a demanding pursuit of truth and beauty because </p><p>besides you know the rest. The part John Keats reminds us of</p><p>where beauty is truth and truth beauty. Always worth a look.</p><p></p><p>--Roy Bentley</p>