I like it for giving us a fuller tale (true but sounds tall).
So it is the best yet, Bill….
Doug
> On Mar 29, 2020, at 4:14 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Is anyone else finding, in these odd days, episodes of their lives flashing
> through their minds? Anyway, I’ve had another go at last week’s poem.
>
> The education minister and the union leader
>
>
> The kids knew this was really something
>
> On their territory at recess
>
> two men in suits facing off
>
>
> Suit 1, the slick-shaven education minister,
>
> new library wing duly christened,
>
> had looked to scarper
>
>
>
> but someone had padlocked the carpark gate
>
> Suit 2, a dark-bearded man
>
> bounded up, thrust out his chin
>
>
> torpedoed questions at Suit 1
>
> as he emerged reluctantly
>
> from his government car,
>
>
> slammed the passenger door,
>
> face struggling for self-control
>
> and retreated through milling students
>
>
> and placard-bearing teachers,
>
> his driver left to idle
>
> on asphalt
>
>
> Hit him, hit him, a refrain picked up
>
> this being where in the kids’ experience
>
> such levels of hostility led
>
>
> Then Channel 7 reporters were there
>
> If you think, No beard huffed to camera
>
> as he strode toward the head’s office,
>
>
> that I lack, pace pace, courage,
>
> pace, pace, you’re, pace, mistaken
>
> and he was gone, into the bowels of D wing
>
>
> bw
>
>
> Bill
>
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
Done in by creation itself.
I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
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