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• Five killed in Sydney Harbor boat collision 56 min
• Wannabes or terrorists? Third jury may decide
• State Dept. details global terror threats
• CNNMoney: Wall Street wilts after rate cut
• Agency: Sect boys may have been abused
• WCVB: Amber alert baby thought to be in danger
• Ticker: Obama loses ground, polls say
• Israel kills an Islamic Jihad chief, sources say
• Incest dad vacationed while kids locked up
• Baby found in house riddled with filth
• SI: NFL cheerleaders too sexy for cricket
• Crying 4-year-old found along highway
• Teen too young for 'come hither' pose?
• Colossal squid has soccer-ball eyes
• iReport.com: Share memories of a fallen soldier
Did the National Enquirer
swallow CNN whole while
I slept, like the Great White
Shark that attacked the surfer
off Santa Barbara’s coast, or perhaps
the alligator that
grabbed the guy retrieving
golf balls from a pond
in Florida? I feel
confused, way too frightened
to leave my bed. Can someone mop
my brow and help me up?
Gas prices and foreclosures?
Ho hum. Who cares? Even Global
Warming’s no sweat. The polar
Bears? They will fend for
themselves. What matters is
that I’ve dodged the West Nile
mosquito with
my name on it. And
Iran? They have
no missiles for their A-Bombs
yet. I could relax if
only CNN’s website
would relent, but
I am cast adrift in
Sydney Harbor, clinging to
filthy lifeboats with those
Mormon sect boys and terrorist
wannabes, the Jihad chiefs
and incest dads. I
dream about them. What if
they work free from their
their blue web page links and
alight on me despite the
Amber Alert I’ve call in? Help.
At the least, please make that colossal
squid on your front page close its
eyes and go away.
Sleep will come. The moon's
orbit will wipe clean
my cluttered universe of fears,
and make room for new constellations
to light our desperate days.
April 2006