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Deliberate cruelty…is the one unforgivable thing.
Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire”
Some say that bullying is good for you –
Toughens you to face life’s many trials.
But those who don’t survive, and those who knew
And loved them, find this argument beguiles
Only the guilty who’ve gone free. Broken
Beyond repair, the absent spirit haunts
The family it left behind. But when
The guilty look back on the blows and taunts,
They see foundations of a cool career.
Their future is a long one, well-insured
Against the treatment even they must fear.
Strike first. Pain is for others to endure.
Though nobody will miss them when they’re dead,
They die thinking they stayed “one step ahead.”
-- © 2010 by Jack Veasey
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