Relevant, or Revenant?

Everyone is reacting to images in the media.

Much of the time, we are fighting each other
about things we could look up in an encyclopedia.

Don’t we find the media tedious?
Wouldn’t it be better
if we turned the hideous

nonsense off and had a tranquil, solitary moment reading—
not the news, please!—far rather
an article in an encyclopedia

of Jungian psychoanalytic trivia—
we’ll see our mothers
again in the guise of the Medusa,

our fathers in old graveyards in Moravia.
We’ll be sleepwalkers then, can’t follow our own druthers
about watching this vampire-panic in the media—

famished ghosts slurping the bloody bever,
the brew that lets us scream in human
language and post it in the media,
shutting the encyclopedia.