Yes, the best one yet. Go to Geoff Page’s poetry for examples of similar themes. Then sit on it for some days. (Advice from old Father Time)
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> On 31 Mar 2020, at 10:14 am, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Bill,
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> Thanks for the factual detail. Dramatic material, certainly, to which you were one of the witnesses. I can understand why you wanted to render the scene.
>
> Barry
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>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 08:12:07 +1100, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Thanks, Doug. It’s true or as true as I recall. The union leader was the
>> head of the VSTA, (Victorian Secondary Teachers Association) Brian
>> Henderson, the education minister was Don Hayward, an appointee of the
>> hated Jeff Kennett, elected in 1992 as premier of Victoria, closer of
>> schools and wrecker of teaching conditions. I was one of the placard
>> carriers as secretary of our local branch at Reservoir High. There was a
>> statewide policy of banning all serving government ministers from schools
>> which our principal, Terry Danckert had flouted.
>>
>> Bill
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>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 6:23 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>>> 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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>>> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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>>> Done in by creation itself.
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>>> 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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