Front Page Story

Scraping
chunking
spewing
pumpkin guts
clinging, dripping
from your fingernails
flinging them onto yesterday’s
news.

Wrapping it up
silver kissing style
twisting the story
tossing into the trash
your hand strangling
the paperboy’s
efforts.

Sitting at home
with your money
living in his pocket
he is scraping
cheese
from under
his tired toenails
flinging them onto yesterday’s
news.