The Time is Over
Nidaa Khoury
For more than thirty years
for every newscast
the newsreader has come on time,
at the same time, to the same screen,
and he’s told me what has taken place
what they said and what they did and what they meant
and he’s said it’s all they know and they don’t know more
and he’s finished with a weather forecast—
dry and cloudy, gales and heat.
