Rescuers in China are digging up miners, 2016

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Rescuers in China are digging up miners

while refugees bob the Aegean sea.

Elninio windchimes, and here is The New Year's
Old News Bulletin. From southern ice
cruising to a warming North Pole

we have a spot of unseasonable weather.

Slightly inclement poetry should be

noting the internal rhymes of amber

whiskey clinking a thick glass, silver

to gold draped over the evergreen smell of pine,

reminiscence nostalgia of human-kind

cosying starkness, not nature’s best-buds, geese

and daisy daisy deer nibbling at a new fast food joint,

munching on non seasonal bouquets, missing flights, 

missing in extreme weather events

until radio waves are seasick ill

with statistics on seasonal roadkill.

In the morning, the radio soberly maps how many

by the length of a roll-call foghorn. Bugle volunteers
can’t dish out kindness quickly enough.

Diplomacy’s PA makes conference calls

to organise a conference call to call

for a conference shortly before the North Pole

measured a few degrees above zero – where were

you in the floods?

Paris had an election and citizens
leapt the learning curve of the earth’s tilt

through uphill struggling steps, bloody tantrums

to the straight levelheaded path ahead. Were you

there? Was that canned laughter added after

the already standing ovation Trumpeted across the Nation?

Alternative facts on media stations. Outpost agencies wracked up

sales per inch. Pinch Pinch. Wake up.

Pinch Punch first day of the month

of dirty dancing and stepford wives

deal and no deal gameshow rodeos.

Down will be up along Route 45.

Up will be down along the Boulevards and Promenades

along avenues and high street tweets, the drums

the marching, the solidarities, the liars.

News agencies are touting for your cognitive bias. Obscene.

Join the discussion, be a hero on apps more addictive than heroine.

Misinformation of the Nation, head bowed to a screen.

Date@china miners
Ah 2016
Brexit Trump Paris Christmas New year 2017