[OSList] Poem for the times

[Royle, Karl]

Questionnaire

by Wendell Berry


How much poison are you willing

to eat for the success of the free

market and global trade? Please

name your preferred poisons.


For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do?

Fill in the following blanks

with the names of your favorite

evils and acts of hatred.


What sacrifices are you prepared

to make for culture and civilization?

Please list the monuments, shrines,

and works of art you would

most willingly destroy.


In the name of patriotism and

the flag, how much of our beloved

land are you willing to desecrate?

List in the following spaces

the mountains, rivers, towns, farms

you could most readily do without.


State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child.

Name, please, the children whom

you would be willing to kill.

Sent by iPhone
Karl Royle
Head of Enterprise and Commercial Development

Faculty of Education Health and Wellbeing
University of Wolverhampton
01902323006
07815416698
@karlroyle. On Twitter
Karlr61 Skype

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