Indifference During Breakfast

you keep on talking
words flood in my ears
as i eat breakfast of egg
and white rice and
coffee,

i keep watching TV
Mt. Mayon spewing lava
another massacre of
innocent lives in Maguindanao
an attempt to bomb
another plane by
a Nigerian terrorist

i am engrossed.
keep on talking.
i will pretend
that i am your listener.