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# Don’t Watch the News
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/dont-watch-the-news/
- Published: 2024-07-16T03:05:03.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-16T03:05:03.000Z
- Description: You don’t need to watch the news. Walk the dog. Lay in the grass. Watch a cloud settle into evening’s funereal pews. That terror which lies in wait will be there when you return...
- Author: Andy
- Tags: America on the Brink, Be The Change, poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

You don’t need to watch the news. Walk the  
dog. Lay in the grass. Watch a cloud settle  
into evening’s funereal pews. That terror which  
lies in wait will be there when you return, will  
greet you like an old dog walking stiffly over.

You don’t need to be outraged. Let the graffiti  
be. Let the weeds grow a while. Let the dishes  
pile up. Leave a little trash for the hungry ants  
to feast on. Earth is a messy, untidy place;  
you don’t need to be the one to make its bed.

And even when the filth becomes too much, when  
the old dog rises up to claw you, when the yard  
is so overgrown you cannot find your way, still, don’t  
watch the news. You will carry this heavy world  
until you deliver its salvation, or it crushes you.