Yesterday's news
I watched the news yesterday, more scandal,more of the things there's been way too much of.One item, I can't remember the context,the who, what, where, or why of it all. Just this picture has stuck, like some nestedtriptych; a painting hanging in a nondescriptroom, on a computer screen, watchedthrough the indifferent lens of my TV. Not even the whole thing, a portion behind the speaker's head, framed by the screen corner:Loweryesque figures vibrantly inactive,animated by some artist's mystic hand. The unseen voice and bobbing head, a sideshow,my attention pulled to that top right corner,to dance with brightly coloured figures, ona street where all news was yesterday's.