Freedom of Information?

What’s this I hear about face masks?

Dare we hope COVID has passed

Into history’s deep recess,

I’m still not sure, I only guess…

 

Warmongering has pride of place;

We wonder who is losing face

With muzzled news on network channels

Confusion reigns in cyber-gunnels!

 

As war’s first casualty is Truth*

Some weird statistics hit the roof

Free speech is hampered, put on hold

This war, alas, is far from cold!

 

We Poets toy with life’s rich maze

Dead ends and home runs both amaze

As events appear in a new guise

And daily news is a surprise!

(c) Poet in the woods 2022

*quote attributed to Greek dramatist Aeschylus (525-456 BC.)