collateral damage – Skywritings https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings Stevan Harnad Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:48:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/wp-content/uploads/sites/287/2018/07/cropped-orang1-1-32x32.jpg collateral damage – Skywritings https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings 32 32 The Mower (by Philip Larkin) https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/2022/01/27/the-mower-by-philip-larkin/ https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/2022/01/27/the-mower-by-philip-larkin/#respond Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:06:27 +0000 https://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/skywritings/?p=1634 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48423/the-mower-56d229a740294

Yes.

(But why do we always,
reflexively,
ritually,
appropriate animal suffering
for solemn admonitions
about human suffering?

Because it’s not tragic enough
on its own?)

You may reply,
“Yes,
but why do you always
turn it in this direction?”

Maybe because most
keep turning it in the other…

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