A tanka written by Lee Sonogan

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. – Michel De Certeau
Apport drift hearsay,
Subsequent down from hilltop,
Ump anchors aweigh!
Tabloid gasket island-hop,
More solicit than purvey!
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. – e. e. cummings
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