Law in Contemporary Society

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CreativeStudentWritings 4 - 23 Mar 2010 - Main.MichaelHilton
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 Someone said I ought to try this, so here we go.

Lawyering is changing the world with words, eh? Well there's a broad definition if I've ever seen one. Changing the way the law regards an individual or class of persons, thereby changing the way the law dictates others' interactions with them, is one way to change the world with words. Lawyering? Sure. But what about changing the way an individual perceives another person or class of persons, with that change in perception affecting the way they interact - that's changing the world (at least a tiny portion of it) with words as well. Lawyering? Who knows.

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 I second that. Thanks for sharing.

-- JessicaCohen - 18 Feb 2010

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Thanks for taking a look guys - got anything of your own? I know there are bound to be at least a few more folks out there with some creative spark, ya shouldn't be shy. Are we really as risk-averse as Eben says? (I'd like to think no) Take a risk, let someone see a different side of ya!

I finished another poem recently. Take a look.

A Plastic Bag Was

A plastic bag was
buffeted, blown, and
inextricably enveloped 
in the clear; 

that white shining soared, 
awash in the air, empty 
of anything's absence.

It rose, riffling in the cold 
current, carried high 
its shadow, drifting 
small on a red-brick wall.

Inundated in sky it slit
that building-bounded blue, 
slid and spun, engulfed
in eddies  and enticing.

It will flex, bend, swell 
with the wind's rising 
- rolling hollows heave,
engorged in the waxing 
flow that fails - then,

lolling and pellucid,
edify in its ebbing
and end.  Embraced,
entangled in angled limbs 
of backlit bark and bone.

It will lose its luster, become
bleached, tattered, fade.
Hanging  in the branches
of some silhouette while 
the shadows seep, and spread, 
and are obscured 
in light's leaving.
 
 
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