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]> 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
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