From: edwardbelsky@worldnet.att.net   
      
   The article says the following:   
   "Malasi, an Angolan refugee who lived rough in Peckham, was not identified   
   as one of the attackers until a year later"   
   Question for abg-o: Who knows what "lived rough" means in American parlance?   
   It means to be homeless. Homeless people, shadow men, are all over New York,   
   an epiphenomenon of high rents. They are not dangerous in general although   
   one chased me once when I went up to him. Part of the bipartisan experience   
   of New York are the piles of disparate objects that do not look completely   
   dead and have their owner demurringly scrunched down inside them. There is a   
   perfect word in Yiddish for the valued objects that the homeless carry   
   around with them -- be-be-khas. I once walking a dog whose ball rolled down   
   stone stairs in Morningside Park and I came across a group of huddling   
   homeless people, talking rationally about getting through the cold night It   
   was a vision of hell which I understand needn't happen under the Bloomberg   
   administration -- he's opened more shelters and spent money on security for   
   them..   
   I once started a poem about the homeless and may finish with encouragement.   
      
   From An Ash Heap   
   A HOMELESS MAN Seen sitting in a vacant lot USING A PARCHED TEABAG in water   
   warmed at a brazier   
   It is the peculiar LOWNESS of poverty that you discover first -- George   
   Orwell   
      
   Easy transitions leak only from wealth.   
   Your colorant is thin and overextended.   
   Stale inspirations break through your cup.   
   Your day begins as apparitional gains   
   But your industry releases no conceits   
   Of water, no casual auroras.   
   Husbanding peels and prodding glints,   
   Trapped in the minor reds, you tease and pump   
   An ineffectual, uninfluential bag.   
   You can't conjure color from leftovers   
   You've got to be somewhere to get somewhere.   
   You are trying to wrestle color out of nothing,   
   Like a medieval theologian   
   Through quibbling degrees to consummation   
   And the dogged replacement of shades   
   With nuances more more solid.   
   The verriest vein of summer, youth's rashness....   
      
      
      
   jmm1951  wrote in message   
   news:1171552487.245793.209210@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com...   
   > On Feb 14, 3:52 pm, "ROBBIE"  wrote:   
   > > ...these fu*king idiots the high jump. 30 years is about right - think   
   about   
   > > the bobbing he'll do when he gets on the korry in there! The rope would   
   have   
   > > been more appropriate, and more humane as well.   
   > >   
   > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6345335.stm   
   > >   
   > > ROBBIE   
   > > 'London - so vibrant, so diverse!'   
   >   
   > Funny the article does not mention the ethnicity of the perpetrators.   
   > I agree about the rope being more humane than 30 years in prison. For   
   > that reason I favor prison.   
   >   
      
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