VERSUS
'The World versus Wall Street'
A real call to arms!
Let's hope it's a call
That improves, not alarms.
The Power of the People
Sounds heady and grand;
The cry that inspires us?
'United we stand!'
But think back to Russia,
In the days of the Tsar,
When a well-meaning rabble
In time went too far;
When the cry 'Retribution!'
Was sounding a knell,
And the dream became, soon,
Just a Communist hell!
Let's hope all these 'Springs'
Bloom into sweet summer
And not into chaos
Or something much dumber.
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GREY ON GREY
Grey on grey, shadow on shade.
A strange unreality it made!
Turning a day which was sunny bright
Into a monochrome, dark and light.
The window behind me was filled with blue,
Yet, from this photograph, not a clue!
On the stair a shadow of me,
Looming like a monstrosity!
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