thanks Bill good to see a covering of current events -for me last verse
needs a bit of tinkering cheers P
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Wootton
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 8:46 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Action
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
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