This is superb!! My favorite of the series so far. I'm sending it to my
Berkeley activist friends. "To the camera, inert / force-multiplier"
particularly good. US doesn't have as much CCTV as you - yet. Only line I
found at all obscure was "their horses shamming injury."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 4:49 PM
Subject: After Slumber (viii)
> TO SERFDOM. To the disembodied claw,
> iron pincer of adjustment; to another
> glorious four years of being all -
> right - Jack. To freedom in a single bound.
> To furious pedalling into gale-force wind.
> To dereliction: to becoming one
> of us by slow deregulation, sloughing
> conscience as you near the brimming trough.
> To dying of ignorance. To token resistance.
> To your constituents, ungrateful rabble
> though they may be. To the camera, inert
> force-multiplier; to the tooled-up Met,
> their horses shamming injury. To cancer,
> wild obsolescence, at unheard-of length.
>
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