Did Something Happen?

What's in the news, today?
Cannot think what happened,
Seems like the same thing in the BBC's,
Continental sections,

Africa doesn't have much going on,
I guess it's all okay,
Asia seems charmed, at least in India, Seems Australia no longer has dismay,
Europe, may have taken a break from war,

It's only respectful,
Latin America - wait, no Brits there,
Mid East's depressing still,

And the U.S.?
How 'bout you take a guess,?
It's hyperbole, but you get the point,
When it's propoganda, it is newsless.

You Don't Get It, Yet

Will there be a vaccine?
Will the world be submerged,
By the deluge of the SARS2 virus,
Amid this recent surge?

Russia's administering its vaccine,
As of this October,
The U.S. thinks its will come by year end,
Though you can bet you'll need to be insured,

Britain's buying one hundred million shots,
From AstraZeneca,
It seems it's every country for itself,
Sucks to be India.

Who're we kidding?
There're billions on this earth,
My guess, ten percent might get a vaccine,
Chosen primarily based on their worth.

Congratulations to the House of Windsor!

The whole world's now talking,
'Bout Will and Kate's new son,
Born July twenty-two, two-oh-one-three,
Six ounces and eight pounds.

Now this one's third in line to become king,
(Thank god he's not a girl),
With no power other than symbolic,
Oh, and enough money to buy the world,

Born of a tradition marked by incest,
Though, granted, not lately,
The Monarchy has had no juice since the,
Seventeenth century.

But they're still loved,
By most those of England,
Still an excuse to stay within in one's class,
And avoid excessive revolution.