Someone just emailed me that she doesn't like the new pope's face and I imagined her seeing
endless footage of his image on TV and wrote this:

THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2005

Poor Me With No TV

never seen a scud missile,
never seen the towers fall,
never seen smoke come out the vatican,
never seen much at all

read about it in papers
seen photos of it too
heard it on non-stop radio
but I'm worlds away from you

because you dodge missiles with CNN
watched the planes hit one hundred times
studied every wrinkle in the new pope's face
your life's richer than mine