Thanks Pat. You could be right about the last. My intention was to pack in
some competing concepts and finish abruptly. See what others say.
Bill
On Wednesday, 15 June 2016, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> 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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