Sometimes, some people may say just what they heard
from a TV personality like a news caster, a clergy preacher, or a movie star
Some people say what they heard
from a dance song on the radio
People say
what they believe to be a conviction.
Sometimes, some people watch and record a video on their cell phones
watching someone being killed by a baseball bat
Some people watch and enjoy
the new money they earned from selling their award-winning video to the TV
People say
I agree with the TV; it looks fun.
People turned to dust.1
"This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen, out of character to assure you that The War of The Worlds has no further significance than as the holiday offering it was intended to be. The Mercury Theatre's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying Boo! Starting now, we couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow night. . . so we did the best next thing. We annihilated the world before your very ears, and utterly destroyed the C. B. S. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn't mean it, and that both institutions are still open for business. So goodbye everybody, and remember the terrible lesson you learned tonight. That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian. . .it's Hallowe'en."2
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu5bBDRpzPM
2. https://www.erbzine.com/mag23/War_of_the_Worlds.html
3. https://genius.com/Jackson-wang-cruel-lyrics
