Poetry Corner
Will Warren provides the best comment so far on that "not in our name" letter recently sent to the Guardian:
How piercingly you parse the claims of those
Who craft the shallow, sentimental prose
Proclaiming cause with claim on our devotion:
How splendid to rebuff such rude emotion.How thrilling to extend your hands pristine
(Attended by those consciences serene)
To all who seek your countrymen’s demise:
Was ever there such selfless enterprise?If only generations past had done
What you now do, the peace would long be won.
And if it were a peace of thuggish sway,
Your names would say, “A modest price to pay.”