324
hypothetically
speaking
it
was without thinking, really
it
was by accident
at
least
it
was not what we'd call 'on
purpose'
result
of unforeseen circumstances
(a
concatenation, is that what they say?)
anyway,
no one could have predicted
it
no
one could have intended the outcome
it
happened the way these things do
like
the weather or the stock market
like
any 'act of God'
who
can tell –
a
moment's inattention...
one
thing leads to another
things
get out of control
out
of hand
the
toys
it
had a lot to do with them
really
just the fact that they were there
lying
about, to trip over
they
should never have been left unsupervised
if
an adult had been there...
you
might say a proper fence would have helped
but
fences
can make things worse
and
in any case, in fact, there was already a barrier
and
more than one
if
just one reasonable, responsible person
had
been on hand
if
someone had thought the thing through
if
they just hadn't worked themselves up so far
was
it a windy day?
was
the moon full?
were
they just too full of themselves?
…
if the mother had had a say
or
even somebody else's mother
if
they had only listened
listened
just for a moment
if
only they had listened to reason
or even to each other
if they could have looked into each other's
eyes
just thought for a moment
'so it's like that for them'
if they'd have just seen how
anything's better
if
after if
but
it all comes to this
had
things been just a little
different
then
perhaps there would have been
no
war
So true Kit and an aweful mistake.
ReplyDeleteDid you see the tube of the single Irish senator calling out the Trump thing?
The only one I've seen so far.
nope, please post the link, Jeffree
ReplyDeleteLord, but the thing
ReplyDeleteall comes crashing
down and the speaker
is the survivor.
The anthropic at the human and then state scale, beautifully worked
ReplyDeletesee passionate speech regarding the (his) government's reaction to Trump's election
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/pabjqmYWGkM
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin is an Irish Labour Party Senator. He was elected as a Teachta Dála for the Dublin North–Central constituency in 2011