cheers Bill yes those secrets! keep toppling!
On 05/03/2019 21:23, Sheila Murphy wrote:
> Sure says it well and does it, Bill. Yes!
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:03 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Listen.
>>
>> Do you want,
>>
>> Lennon asked
>>
>> or was it McCartney,
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>> to know a secret?
>>
>>
>>
>> Of course you do.
>>
>> Who wouldn’t?
>>
>> Access to closed knowledge,
>>
>> you’re all ears.
>>
>> A stillness hovers ...
>>
>>
>> then pow– you’re in the know!
>>
>> Your eyes rocket
>>
>> back in your head,
>>
>> hands flutter up
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>> to your lower face.
>>
>>
>>
>> Unlike gossip,
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>> top secrets stun.
>>
>> Gossip you weigh up,
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>> not whether to tell
>>
>> but who to tell first.
>>
>>
>>
>> Gossip wants out.
>>
>> Secrets burrow in
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>> and fester.
>>
>> No longer are you
>>
>> gladhandler.
>>
>>
>>
>> Some secrets are so tight
>>
>> they cling to the secretist
>>
>> but the best secrets
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>> – and the worst – are shared
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>> with just one other,
>>
>>
>> setting up a bond, a deal,
>>
>> compromising the receiver.
>>
>> There are good secrets of course,
>>
>> surprise parties and whatnot
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>> but bad secrets outsizzle them.
>>
>>
>> Are there ever good grounds
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>> for secret spilling?
>>
>> Is the Pope a Catholic!
>>
>> All bets are off
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>> for secrets thrust upon.
>>
>>
>> Loyalties recalibrate
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>> when closet skeletons
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>> spill into light.
>>
>> O Secrets,
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>> you world topplers.
>>
>>
>>
>> bw
>>
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