Mark – Can you help me out with the exact words of a quote and tell me if it is from Plato?
“Justice is deaf, dumb, blind and hungry…”
??
Thanks.
(And “rangyk” – Is that you hiding behind that name Dave G? If so, you’re a little chicken not to address me personally…but whomever you are, what’s your gripe now and what am I lying about?)
The Mother
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get,
The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair,
The si... More >>
Vicky January 26, 2006 7:05 am
The Mother
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get,
The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair,
The singers and workers that never handled the air.
You will never neglect or beat
Them, or silence or buy with a sweet.
You will never wind up the sucking-thumb
Or scuttle off ghosts that come.
You will never leave them, controlling your luscious sigh,
Return for a snack of them, with gobbling mother-eye.
I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed
children.
I have contracted. I have eased
My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck.
I have said, Sweets, if I sinned, if I seized
Your luck
And your lives from your unfinished reach,
If I stole your births and your names,
Your straight baby tears and your games,
Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your marriages, aches,
and your deaths,
If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths,
Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate.
Though why should I whine,
Whine that the crime was other than mine?–
Since anyhow you are dead.
Or rather, or instead,
You were never made.
But that too, I am afraid,
Is faulty: oh, what shall I say, how is the truth to be said?
You were born, you had body, you died.
It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.
Believe me, I loved you all.
Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you
All.
From A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks, published by Harper & Brothers. © 1945 by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Vicky January 25, 2006 5:29 am
Mark – Can you help me out with the exact words of a quote and tell me if it is from Plato?
“Justice is deaf, dumb, blind and hungry…”
??
Thanks.
(And “rangyk” – Is that you hiding behind that name Dave G? If so, you’re a little chicken not to address me personally…but whomever you are, what’s your gripe now and what am I lying about?)