I challenged
received wisdom,
but those who
had received that
wisdom did not
accept my challenge,
said that the wisdom
was unchallengeable,
and therefore the
challenge was wrong.
Never mind, soon I will
be gone, and then you
can say “what challenge?”
Any day now,
some day soon,
the young people
I see who are
nurses, shop
assistants, car
mechanics,
policemen; or
who are pushing
prams full of
crying babies, are
going to be old
enough to be
not my children,
not my grand children,
but my great
grandchildren.
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