Bad news infects the teller

Bad news

Infects the teller..

The teller

Conveys news which

Is believed to have

Arisen in a fictitious

Past time..news

In the telling 

Colored with belief

Is what is happening

And not...


"The nature of bad news infects the teller."  Antony & Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
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