Your title gave me hopes of a whole poem in some sort of vernacular,
but in retrospect it now seems like a quotation but where from?
Oops, sorry, I just got it, slow wasn’t I - Australia…
I was about to say your selection of copycat behaviors could now be
counterweighted by a a further selection of contrasting ones.
Or do you predict a powerful gun lobby down under will get all Aus armed some time…?
etc
Max in Seattle
On Jan 19, 2016, at 14:08, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Us trail yer
>
> We do.
> Too often.
> We follow
> the lead
> of our white
> English speaking
> Northern cousins.
>
> Be it education,
> foreign policy, even
> spoken language,
> we grab at
> the tails
> of the USA
> or the Old Dart.
>
> Good idea, Finland:
> abolishing tests
> in schools, insisting
> on Masters degrees
> for teachers,
> we don't say,
> despite stunning stats.
>
> Just because
> his surname
> suggested outback
> we didn't have to
> go Bush,
> enter Iraq
> or middle any East.
>
> Nice days
> get wished on us
> whether we
> like it or not.
> Come on (A)Us,
> stop trailing,
> start being.
>
> bw
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