Essay on a News Report (27)
Michael Ceraolo
The story showed that the corporate takeover was nearly complete;
the latest great sports play was already being called,
not the usual pseudo-clever echo pun,
but by the corporate name of the stadium where it took place
Essay on a News Report (31)
The local news gushed excitedly
over the merger between Key Bank
and McDonald ' & 'Company brokerage house,
orgasming with obsesssive localness,
without ever once mentioning
that the merger was illegal