Martin ah! That explaining!
Cheers P
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: 04 February 2009 11:21
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Subject: Snap - The Bureaucrat as Critic
Each day they are sent to us: instances
of pain, worked examples of life pressing
unbearably down, noted in due form
submitted for judgement.
By design every story is stripped back
to a wall of facts, rough and unplastered;
what cannot be diagnosed by doctors
must not and will not count.
This is what we ask of everyone
who makes a claim on us: describe the instant
when a life changed, describe without feeling
and without adjectives
that lyric moment, then send it to us.
Each day these moments come and we must look
must sift and scrutinise these shapes of fact
and judge their consequence.
But that is not enough. The law demands
that we explain ourselves and what we've done.
There is no form that this can take but prose:
our essay in response.
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