John Deming on “Headline News”

WITH SADNESS COMES ACCURACY;
WITH HAPPINESS FALSE MEMORY

so all my digital passwords
are based on personal tragedy

I remember your saddest expressions
I love how little rebels rebel

you put red streaks in your hair
after trying to kill yourself

all over America they're sadder
than their circumstances would suggest

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the editors are read more than the reporters
because most people just read the headlines

NO CHARGES FOR WILSON
ARSON, RIOTING ERUPT IN FERGUSON
teenage atheists of the world unite

what it means to care seriously about nothing
America in love with its snipers

now everything is image
so everything's plausible
even likely

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why must I be a teenager
I have ISIS on my face
it's time for a teenage rebellion
time for the iPhone X

J.D. SALINGER'S HOLDEN CAULFIELD AGING GRACELESSLY I tried to perform in one style at one clip
started taking pills and now I'm counting every breath

in the five-way Dyckman intersection
her face is everywhere
it's happening again

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CLAIRE DANES DEBUTS RED HAIR
TALKS MEETING OBAMA ON 'LATE SHOW'

I'm never not going to be
Angela Chase sitting on her bed

listening to the Cranberries'
"Dreams" then her mom comes in

and turns it down
Angela says just turn it off

Patty replies no
I like it

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shit-talking mushrooms
scene on a plane

UK SHOWS INTEREST IN BUYING ANOTHER
C-17

the assembly line is closing
the royal air force is blessed

the moon just lightens
the specked noses of sika deer

each eating
sedges and grass

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blissful and beat
the whole car ride
ADDICTION TREATMENT

WITH A DARK SIDE
it's all dark side
that's what the song said

it'll prove to itself
it can still have you
and walk off again

I'm out of ideas and I hate conflict

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WEBSITE TRACKS
BLACK FRIDAY DEATHS

these look like solid deals to me
silk flatscreen

how it feels to me
the determined unfolding

of all my intentions
into blossom

and practically
healing me

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that terrible person
just screamed
I hate my kids

PROSECUTOR: POPE FACES MAFIA 'RISK'

drunken nothing worth
looking at is better than
the sky

how could my brass
crooked ashtray
I'll find it

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BEAUTY'S BRIDGE PLUNGE
Ashley's jewelry line was called Missfits
she made them by hand

the way you feel is not an illusion
there is always underlying form
I sit at a keyboard night after night committing fraud
thin string white stone orchid jewel black ball

and don't you all feel guilty

yes they do
your bracelets are beautiful

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don't know anyone very well
it's impossible to think
then a surge of hope from where the neck
angles into the spine
COMING BACK FROM THE BRINK

we're fostering hysteria
for the pablum
down the hall
there's a proxy war in Syria
a sound in every wall

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strict karma is a ridiculous idea
generalized karma is not
discipline comes from suffering
suffering comes from god
god's beyond the world of forms
forms are all we've got
I'm awfully thankful
for my form right now NASA:
WATER WORLDS OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
AND BEYOND

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I forget what we're talking about
in the middle of the conversation

forget why I left one chamber
and entered another chamber

few things are as inevitable
as mental deterioration

HOT ON THE TRAIL
OF UNIVERSE'S DARKEST SECRET

I don't know anyone very well
I like being alone on the weekend

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what would Frasier Crane do
he'd put this shit away

KELSEY GRAMMER OPENS UP
ABOUT HIS LOVE AFFAIR WITH COCAINE
he wanted to live a new life
new lives are not that great

I'm in the mood for love
I'm in the mood for things
what would Sideshow Bob do
I love it when he sings

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4 ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH HOFFMAN DRUGS
get me more
or let real
loose I get to
guarding my
own floors

every time I am
alone I get to
pardon my
old form