Fake news

I saw a reporter
powder her face,
take the mic,
ask “Am I a go,
are we ready?”
wobbling unsteady
on her stilt-y
high heels,
looking more
like a woman
of vice,
doing
take after take,
when it dawned
on me, there
wasn’t a story
taking place,
and it was
all
fake.

Reviews

[alanwgraham]

Trump must be the fake that launched a thousand poems - I'm guilty of a few! Well done Maxwell for another worthy take on the fake. What are we all going to write about in the time after Trump?
Regards,
Alan

[Great Aunt Astri]

OH,I had to smile. One never knows these days! I like the way you end on the single word 'fake'.