Laughing Matters

<br>Live at five and cnn<br><br>Keep us all abreast<br><br>Of breaking stories that can tend<br><br>To make us anxious and depressed.<br><br>Problems with no answers<br><br>Hang on like some chronic cough.<br><br>And every day some brand new issue<br><br>Rears its head to piss you off.<br><br><br><br>Bad guys win.<br><br>Optimisms wearing thin.<br><br>Things are spinning out of control.<br><br>Cynicisms all the fad.<br><br>World events could make us mad<br><br>As hatters.<br><br>Almost every day<br><br>Some underpinning slips away.<br><br>These arent laughing matters.<br><br><br><br>Time bombs tick.<br><br>People keep on getting sick.<br><br>And a nickels not worth a cent.<br><br>Widckedness and greed abound.<br><br>Just as peace is gaining ground<br><br>It shatters.<br><br>Hate is here to stay,<br><br>And justince goes to those who pay.<br><br>Friend, these arent laughing matters.<br><br><br><br>The truth is scarrier by far<br><br>Than anything that stephen king could write.<br><br>The stories in the paper are<br><br>The daily small decline and fall<br><br>Spelled out in black and white.<br><br><br><br>Oh, what to do, what to do? <br><br>How to take a brighter view<br><br>When your noodles totally fried.<br><br>Human spriits need to be<br><br>Leavened by a little levity.<br><br>So take those blues<br><br>And bounce them off the wall.<br><br>Keep your humor please,<br><br>cause dont you know it times like these that<br><br>Laughing matters most of all.