Convicted, they penned them and for humanity:
poems, proverbs and stories, short and sharp—
that were rare, riotous, relevant ,true-life, probing,
compelling, creative, uncompromising and fearless.
Their bravery...
She fished in lakes that were fishable.
Her stanzas a ploy, her sunbeams a decoy.
Her cantos were cloying, crawling carrots she angled
with a lustrous, luscious...
One hundred and twenty thousand pounds,
I hear will be wasted on judges’ colonial wigs.
One hundred and twenty thousand pounds
blown on what? On costly colonial...