I look like being condemned as lecturer often it seems, Doug. I did try, I
thought, here, to let the 'actions' speak louder than the words, or at
least to stand for all to see: claiming only 20 minutes of it should not
condemn his son so harshly. I could have gone harder: here stands my 20 y o
son who for 19.994 of those years has been a paragon of love and virtue ...
I though 'shakes notions' was at least stepping back from saying what a
shmuck the father was/is. No? What do you do/ should you do when the fruit
of your loins turns out rotten?
Bill
On Thursday, 16 June 2016, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Agree, of course, & like the play with ‘action,’ but it does still seem to
> much a lecture perhaps…?
>
> So, if you’re ticketing, Id see what else you can do with ‘act’ words
> throughout…
>
> Doug
> > On Jun 15, 2016, at 1:46 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > A word once packed with positives,
> > denoting the death of dithering
> > and onset of decisive movement.
> >
> > Now besmirched by college
> > rapist's father seeking sympathy
> > for his swimmer son's punishment.
> >
> > 'Twenty minutes of action'
> > we are asked to stack up
> > against the rest of his known life.
> >
> > Undenied live action for Brock,
> > unconscious action visited upon
> > party girl behind a dumpster.
> >
> > If not for the actions of two cyclist
> > Swedes, injuries could have been worse.
> > What's done cannot be undone.
> >
> > But the action of reading a prepared
> > victim impact statement in court,
> > of social then trad media picking it up
> >
> > along with butter wouldn't melt
> > photos of Stanford Brock, shakes
> > notions of who the bad guys might be
> >
> > and calls for recalibrations of where
> > love and loyalty and justice and long-lasting pain
> > ought slot.
> >
> > bw
>
> Douglas Barbour
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