Sick Commute and Free Doughnuts

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“Sick Commute and Free Doughnuts”?

(Reading the online news)

It’s a weird sort of poetry: 

juxtaposed headlines from

the metropolitan area  

wadded together in

mind-boggling, strung-together,

stream-of-consciousness assemblage.

My day begins with bizarre

bullet-pointed information:

news in haiku form…

I.

“Celebrate Fairfax!

Sick commute and free doughnuts.”

Today’s news in brief!

 II.

“Three fatalities.

Teacher arrested at school.”

Tears with today’s news…

Tease out the threads of

diverse stories;

click and search, then click again,

following, following,

till you, like Theseus,

(beset by Furies)

wind your way

story by story,

newsflash by newsflash,

out of (or into)

the Minotaur’s cave.