Do you seek, when you take up your paper, Some beastly and horrible tale, Some Saint who has Cut up a Caper, Some Paragon Landed in Jail? Are you keen for a serpentine Scandal, For a briskly salacious Divorce, For a Preacher who Goes Off the Handle, A Wife who has cause for Remorse? Do you look for an Accident bloody, For the Plague's insidious woe? For the Crooks who have made it a study To steal from the high and the low? For a sweepingly Fierce Conflagration, An Earthquake that Shatters a Town, For War's remote Desolation, For a Storm and a Thousand that Drown? Do you feel disappointed and cheated When headings are peacefully tame? Have the editors then been defeated, -- A newspaper only in name? Ah, editors mainly are feeders Of mouths that they measure or guess! It's the yellow, sensational readers Make the yellow, sensational press. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE by JAMES GALVIN SPEAKING TERMS by JAMES GALVIN LOVE'S MIRACLE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON MY BOY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON EPITAPH IN A CHURCH-YARD IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA by AMY LOWELL |