<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578950" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Whistle Blower</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Took the sins of the Corporation<br>Upon her shoulders<br>The indignity of her firing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Struggling to make ends meet<br>Unemployed, without prospect<br>Children crying, hungry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet she endured</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The barrage of punishing lawsuits<br>A legion of lawyers platooned<br>To make her life unbearable</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Anonymous threats<br>Phone calls and burning<br>Mailboxes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Almost beaten, she clung<br>With bleeding fingers to the<br>Inviolable Truth</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Truth that held her steady<br>Truth that wouldn’t let her go<br>Truth demanding apology</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gavel came down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some hear screams in the dead of night<br>Most continue dreaming<br>The bed so comfortable, and the morning</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So far away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(Previously published in The Hold, July 2003)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Laurence+Overmire">Laurence Overmire</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=578950" data-title="The Whistle Blower de Laurence Overmire" data-description="Took the sins of the Corporation Upon her shoulders The indignity of her firing Struggling to make ends meet Unemployed, without prospect Children crying, hungry Yet she endured The barrage of punishing lawsuits A legion of lawyers platooned To..."></div> </div> </div>

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