<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460765" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0311 Eternal Justice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was just staggering in the gate<br>with two heavy bags<br>from an exhausting week’s conference<br>when the conman and his accomplice<br>got me right at my own front door –<br>I’m mortified by the memory –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they could replace my missing roof tiles<br>in a moment, look, the ladder’s<br>already up there, the accomplice<br>is halfway up, now he’s already<br>on the roof in his plimsolls, now he's<br>shaking the chimney-stack, look, it's loose<br>.... no cash? oh, <br>they’d drive me to the nearest cash-point…<br>well, you can guess the rest –<br>anything for a quiet life…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as I dozed off that evening, <br>flushed with anger, blushed with stupidity, <br>too tired to crawl to bed, <br>realizing that conmen have<br>all the skills of hypnotists, <br>enlightenment struck: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the next morning, I would wake up<br>150 dollars the poorer but morning-fresh; <br>‘they’ would wake up with the urgent need<br>to seek another mug each day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I realised that sublime, ruthless, <br>beautiful, tragic, comic, eternal justice<br>is - to be – to live it through as -<br>just as we are; right now…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">heroes or victims of ourself </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460765" data-title="0311 Eternal Justice de Michael Shepherd" data-description="I was just staggering in the gate with two heavy bags from an exhausting week’s conference when the conman and his accomplice got me right at my own front door – I’m mortified by the memory – they could replace my missing roof tiles in a ..."></div> </div> </div>

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