Hello All. The prompt today, to write a poem in the form of a news article you wish would come out tomorrow. The prompt came from a site that has prompts everyday of the year, incase you need one, Sundress Publications. I hope you can relate to my news article below.
A New Outlook Our top story this morning we'll get to straightaway All the world’s richest people have a new outlook today, “We all thought it was our right, because of ideas, status or birth. A spokesman said, “We misunderstood the meaning of worth”. “We no longer want to be the cause of need, Running our corporations based on a system of greed”. Close sources report they heard one man say, “I don’t need to make 300 million dollars a day”. “We need to share the wealth, better benefits and wages, Not treat our employees like surfs of the dark ages. After all our workers helped create our phenomenon, We need to pay up to those we rely upon”. “And we need to pay taxes”, the spokesman went on, “To pay for the things that we all depend on, Schools and parks and highways and courts, Bridges and healthcare, trains and airports”. “It all seems so simple, when you wake up anew To understand the things we can afford to do. “I don’t need more cars than I can drive, When spreading the wealth will help the world thrive". “What good is it to have a globe to wander If it is only treated like something to squander. We can join together and solve problems most alarming, Poverty, extinctions, and of course, global warming”. The richest made pledges, the world's economies to fix. We will have more on this story, tonight, at six.
