'Tis the season at nine

I recently learned
Everyone else's parents
Died in September 

Only by one year, at nine

Oh, this marvelous future!
What wonders we shall see
When twenty-fifty's closer
Than old nineteen-ninety. 

A total hack at nine

Information Society
A band that has delighted me
Their second album, tonight, I'll play
It really was their best, I'll say

Nothing but fluff at nine

Yes, the news is awful
The world is naught but hell
But stories about nice things
Simply do not sell