tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080901.post2530198724523735601..comments2024-03-20T08:37:50.011+00:00Comments on Bullying of Academics in Higher Education: 1984 by George Orwell, Chapter 7Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080901.post-80421062033983346722007-01-16T13:50:00.000+00:002007-01-16T13:50:00.000+00:00The obvious, the silly and the true had got to be ...The obvious, the silly and the true had got to be defended.....<br /><br /><br />Overnight, very<br />Whitely, discreetly,<br />Very quietly<br /><br />Our toes, our noses<br />Take hold on the loam,<br />Acquire the air.<br /><br />Nobody sees us,<br />Stops us, betrays us;<br />The small grains make room.<br /><br />Soft fists insist on<br />Heaving the needles,<br />The leafy bedding,<br /><br />Even the paving.<br />Our hammers, our rams,<br />Earless and eyeless,<br /><br />Perfectly voiceless,<br />Widen the crannies,<br />Shoulder through holes. We<br /><br />Diet on water,<br />On crumbs of shadow,<br />Bland-mannered, asking<br /><br />Little or nothing.<br />So many of us!<br />So many of us!<br /><br />We are shelves, we are<br />Tables, we are meek,<br />We are edible,<br /><br />Nudgers and shovers<br />In spite of ourselves.<br />Our kind multiplies:<br /><br />We shall by morning<br />Inherit the earth.<br />Our foot's in the door. <br /><br />Sylvia PlathAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com