Time for the News

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03df0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="03e203c0.jpg" border=0 width="32" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#66334C" FACE="Arial" ><B>The DAVA Lighthouse</B></FONT><B>      |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The DAVA Lighthouse"><U><B>home</B></U></A><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#66334C" FACE="Copperplate Gothic Light" ><B> <!-onMouseover Link CSS Script-© Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com). For full source code, installation instructions, 100's more DHTML scripts, and Terms Of Use, visit dynamicdrive.com--><style></style>  </B></FONT></div> <div> back to<B>  </B><A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poems and Stories"><U><B>Poems and Stories</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03cf2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div>                                                   </div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03ff0f03.jpg"> <div> <I>Time for the News</I></div> <div> <B>Time for the News</B></div> <div> by June Ball </div> <div> The babies are asleep, the diapers washed, the dishes done. </div> <div> In Vietnam there is a bright sun. </div> <div> Instant videos of Dan Rather's views;</div> <div> Turn off cartoons, it's time for the news. </div> <div> Vicki Carr sings on a Christmas show, </div> <div> a Bob Hope special, with the USO. </div> <div> There's shooting today, we get Dan Rather's views; </div> <div> I see it on the evening news. </div> <div> He isn't there but I watch anyway; </div> <div> The children are tired from a day of play.</div> <div> They're too young to see those TV views; </div> <div> I cry when I watch the evening news. </div> <div> I just got a letter, everything is okay. </div> <div> Kiss the girls for me, honey, a gift's on the way, </div> <div> Tomorrow to Saigon to buy you a dress. </div> <div> No worry tonight, no bad news in the press. </div> <div> The telegram said: "we regret to inform you." </div> <div> He promised to be careful, it can't be true. </div> <div> Tet started with terrible views.</div> <div> Tonight, I don't watch the evening news. </div> <div> I hope to hear something; </div> <div> The phone doesn't ring.</div> <div> TV full of protesters with anti-war views;</div> <div> I anxiously watch the evening news. </div> <div> My one friend left who will talk to me, </div> <div> Her husband's in Vietnam too, you see,</div> <div> Says no one wants to hear our views.</div> <div> We both tearfully watch the evening news. </div> <div> You wish you knew something, is he dead or alive? </div> <div> Unknowing agony.</div> <div> Will my child, almost five, remember her daddy?</div> <div> And the one in her two's? </div> <div> See me cry, watching the evening news.</div> <bR> <div> By June Ball, LAMOPH Unit 612</div> <div> Bells, Texas </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>