Nicely turned, Dominic, as the whole series is turning out to be. This
form, & this approach, seems to allow you a wonderful range of
positional speech.
To your constituents, ungrateful rabble
though they may be.
perfectly describes our provincial government's utter contempt for the
people who have vited them back into power for the past 38 years(!).
Doug
On 2-Nov-09, at 2:49 PM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> TO SERFDOM. To the disembodied claw,
> iron pincer of adjustment; to another
> glorious four years of being all -
> right - Jack. To freedom in a single bound.
> To furious pedalling into gale-force wind.
> To dereliction: to becoming one
> of us by slow deregulation, sloughing
> conscience as you near the brimming trough.
> To dying of ignorance. To token resistance.
> To your constituents, ungrateful rabble
> though they may be. To the camera, inert
> force-multiplier; to the tooled-up Met,
> their horses shamming injury. To cancer,
> wild obsolescence, at unheard-of length.
>
Douglas Barbour
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