Paul compares all the spotlights
in the country
and the news that covers
the same few.
He wonders why the news
does not cover a caterpillar
munching milkweed leaves
or spinning its cocoon.
Paul’s podcast interviewed
slaughterhouse workers
about the depression they felt
over calves and little lambs.
His smart-phone
filmed a dancing wasp
drunk on fermented peaches
that lay on the ground.
Paul found at the farmers’ market
someone’s granddaughter
who stood on a soapbox
and recited Ophelia’s lines.
A vacant soapbox stood next to hers.
Paul investigated the story
of what happened to that grandson
who was absent with Hamlet’s lines.
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