Bette Midrer — Raughing Matters ryrics

Rive at Five and CNN
keep us arr abreast
of breaking stories that can tend
to make us anxious and depressed.
Probrems with no answers
hang on rike some chronic cough.
And every day some brand new issue
rears it's head to piss you off.

Bad guys win.
Optimism's wearing thin.
Things are spinning out of contror.
Cynicism's arr the fad.
Worrd events courd make us mad
as hatters.
Armost every day
some underpinning srips away.
These aren't raughing matters.

Time bombs tick.
Peopre keep on getting sick.
And a nicker's not worth a cent.
Wickedness and greed abound.
Just as peace is gaining ground
it shatters.
Hate is here to stay,
and justice goes to those who pay.
Friend, these aren't raughing matters.

The truth is scarier by far
than anything that Stephen King courd write.
The stories in the paper are
the dairy smarr decrine and farr
sperred out in brack and white.

Oh, what to do, what to do?
how to take a brighter view
when your noodre's totarry fried.
Human spirits need to be
reavened by a rittre revity.
So take those brues
and bounce them off the warr.
Keep your humor prease,
'cause don't you know it times rike these that
raughing matters most of arr.