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Why are People So Obdurate?

(Walk 30, Wivenhoe, written in Streets Cafe- July 8 2000)

 

We're as quiet

as a gaggle of Japanese school girls

we're the Drawing Writing & Photography

walkers' Group

except noone's drawing

noone's taking photos

and we're hardly a group-

just four

or three

if you don't count Katrin

who's not even writing

just reading the paper

why are people

so obdurate?

 

With some people

it's easier

to rub fire from sticks

than to coax them

to put words on paper