New Reel

The bucket touches the vacant sky ,  
throughout the last election  
broadcast program.  
 
The remote control switches between  
war time documentaries,  
and violent depictions of sporadically  
combusted aliens;  
scratching off the stains from    
fragments of discontinued news-reels  
 
News peeling back  
historical thunder claps ,  
into chiseled images of  
being and nothingness.