Early on the other day, about 30 yards from where I live, a guy was
stabbed to death:
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Woman-arrested-murder-probe/article-583469-detail/article.html
will give you news details. Apparently his suspected murderer was a
woman. I didn't know who he was, or who is believed to have killed
him, all I knew was that on the morning police tape was around the
streets and the very road I live on was blocked off by police cars and
there was a forensic tent set up. Tonight, complete strangers have
been straggling around mutually sobbing about the site of the death,
presumably they were friends of the deceased.
But I know nothing, or next to nothing, about it, even though it
happened almost on my doorstep. Likewise, I know next to nothing about
what is going on in Gaza and Israel, I can see no point in
pontificating. If I, or anyone, could think of something to help end
that tragedy that would be great, but, to go back, the other night, a
bloke was murdered, a few yards from my home, I was watching a
schmaltzy film on tv, and didn't know, not that I would have been
capable of doing anything much if I did, other than calling the
emergency services.
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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