Poem: Reported Speech

A poem about journalism as a neurodivergence

Journalism is a neurodivergence, it has
been decided. An announcement is due
to follow, with many of the practitioners
being in two minds about whether to admit

to this. But there is no doubt in my mind,
believed the CEO of Newspaper Writings.
“We take stories, we make them our own;
all the while claiming impartiality”.

“So there’s certainly an irony there”,
he later conceded. All writing is selfish
someone later said, off the record —
of course. They will still be reported.