TV Talk Shows = Bull Dung and Flies

Why do the flies gather,
what is their interest in the smelly dung heap?
The bull hasn’t even walked away yet
but the flies are already there.

A woman was proud of all her many divorces,
A man was proud of all the children he fathered
with many different women.
And the flies were gathered around,
laughing and clapping.


You may say, “There is no morality involved with flies
crawling and flying about a dung heap.“
In this respect I’m frightened at the idea
of what is accepted, teaching our young
by means of mass media.


And flies always gather when something decays,
traditional morals and values these days
and self-righteous hosts
who carry viruses to our youth
are elevated and revered
as wise and intelligent,
though they’re pompous and vain,
so like flies they promote
a speedy decay.


And the flies are crawling about;
laughing and clapping making moral decay
look good in some way.
That I can’t understand.


So I ask you again,
why do the flies gather? What is their interest
in the smelly dung heap?


If not for justifying their own meaningless existence by enjoying and reveling in the sin of
others,
then maybe a feeling of jealousy and envy
of seeing how sensational they want their own idle lives to be.


Oh how pitiful are these flies
when the air that they breath
could be much cleaner and fresher

far away from the bulls dung heap.