Pretty Pencils

Pretty Pencils

Pretty are the pencils quiet and still

Diverting attention from the tension mill

Yes it’s called news but yellow journalism kills

Journalists have taken political apparatchik pills

Pretty are the pencils quiet and still

Powerful media decide what you think and will

Trusting people thinking Cronkite and Pyle

Political echelons believe the regular folk have no guile

Blame them not for look at the minds and social rot

Superficiality is called reality and movies have no plot

Look back as the past warns ironically thru’ Hollywood’s thorns

There was a time and nobody yawned when movies honked the horns

Remember Citizen Kane and his declaration they’ll believe what I say

This is the media of today and Kane was the prophet with feet of clay

Pretty are the pencils quiet and still, it’s a truth gate

But thru’ that gate is the alternative media where truth has its state