CDXLVI - Pavlov's Dogs

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

to use the three words of the week in a composition.

The words this week were 'dismal', 'luscious' and 'waffle'.

Pavlov’s Dogs.

The news is bad, it always is,

We’re told that that’s what sells;

Disaster, death and mayhem rule

Like Pavlov’s dogs, with bells.

It’s hard to filter truth from dross

Within the stuff they throw us

When we only ever get to see

The bits they want to show us.

The steroid-boosted waffle spot,

The sports report, by name,

Tells us, one night, why we’ll win

And the next night calls us ‘lame’.

The highlight of the dismal show

Comes toward the very end

Where some luscious, busty blonde

Predicts a fine weekend.

At last we get the closing shot

To try to ease our pain

It is a token good-news piece

Of a kitten, rescued from a drain.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2013

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