07-01-2016, 06:30 AM
Nothing focus's a mans mind like his own hanging
I like the imagery, but unfortunately our best work is not always accomplished under the yoke, or in deep water, even above the scaffold. Focused or not. Perhaps, if politicians would have a reminder from day one that the office they hold demands they execute (in a manner of speaking) certain responsibilities in a timely fashion, preferably not just when duress drives them to an act of desperation.
I'd like to suggest we award all state and county officials a small desk model of a noose during their swearing in ceremonies, to act as a figurative reminder for their days* in office as a public servant.
* And those days are always numbered to some extent, aren't they? Whatever the situation, as it is for us all.
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
-Joseph Brodsky
I like the imagery, but unfortunately our best work is not always accomplished under the yoke, or in deep water, even above the scaffold. Focused or not. Perhaps, if politicians would have a reminder from day one that the office they hold demands they execute (in a manner of speaking) certain responsibilities in a timely fashion, preferably not just when duress drives them to an act of desperation.
I'd like to suggest we award all state and county officials a small desk model of a noose during their swearing in ceremonies, to act as a figurative reminder for their days* in office as a public servant.
* And those days are always numbered to some extent, aren't they? Whatever the situation, as it is for us all.
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
-Joseph Brodsky
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”