Thanks, Sheila, Patrick. Shocking secrets have been exposed and tried and
discussed here with the Archbishop Pell conviction.
Bill
On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 8:28 pm, Patrick McManus <
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> 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,
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> to your lower face.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Unlike gossip,
> >>
> >> top secrets stun.
> >>
> >> Gossip you weigh up,
> >>
> >> not whether to tell
> >>
> >> but who to tell first.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Gossip wants out.
> >>
> >> Secrets burrow in
> >>
> >> and fester.
> >>
> >> No longer are you
> >>
> >> gladhandler.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Some secrets are so tight
> >>
> >> they cling to the secretist
> >>
> >> but the best secrets
> >>
> >> – and the worst – are shared
> >>
> >> with just one other,
> >>
> >>
> >> setting up a bond, a deal,
> >>
> >> compromising the receiver.
> >>
> >> There are good secrets of course,
> >>
> >> surprise parties and whatnot
> >>
> >> but bad secrets outsizzle them.
> >>
> >>
> >> Are there ever good grounds
> >>
> >> for secret spilling?
> >>
> >> Is the Pope a Catholic!
> >>
> >> All bets are off
> >>
> >> for secrets thrust upon.
> >>
> >>
> >> Loyalties recalibrate
> >>
> >> when closet skeletons
> >>
> >> spill into light.
> >>
> >> O Secrets,
> >>
> >> you world topplers.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> bw
> >>
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