He’d been a shill for a biased news station
for many years.
He didn’t agree with the fake news he
spewed daily on TV,
but the pay was too good to
follow his conscience.
Then he woke up one morning
and felt like he’d sold
his soul to the devil.
His conscience erupted.
He realized he’d been
as fake as the news
he reported
for over 20 years.
He got dressed,
went to work, took
the elevator to the top
of the skyscraper
that his news station
was located in.
And like a bomb dropped
from a plane,
he jumped off
the building and
all that was left of him
were his splattered remains
on the cold city street below.
Bob Boyd
