Tough, but just one snap of many?
How many different angles will there be?
Doug
On 2011-08-10, at 5:27 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> Strong boys of blue
> take it in turns
> to hit one girl
> with their truncheons.
>
> Fifteen armed lads!
> But no one dies;
> so that’s all right;
> hitting the slag
>
> for defiance
> and violence
> against brave thugs
> in whom one trusts.
>
> Not all at once:
> one at a time;
> and then they’re posed
> in photographs:
>
> some boys in red,
> the colour splashed,
> into glory.
>
> Each fears his life
> is in danger.
> So it’s all right.
>
>
>
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> Lawrence Upton
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
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