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REPAIRING THE WORLD ONE WORD AT A TIME
‘Action is eloquence’ –Wm. Shakespeare, Coriolanus
Wherever there was
poor syntax to be exposed,
incorrect verb tense to be indicted, or
a dangling participle to be
rebuked, wherever
there was a good clause or cause to fight for,
–whether peace, the stain of sexism, or
corporate greed, Susan
Frommer was there, as she
was for L-S, because she understood
community doesn’t roll
out of bed in the morning
fully dressed, but must be stitched
together one project, one march, one food
bank trip, one thanksgiving dinner at a
time, with the sharpest needle called “I must,”
and with thread the plainest color of “I will,”
for there’s no community without
communing,
no compassion without
passion,
no movement without
actually moving,
nor does justice arise from the
lovely embroidery of
best intentions,
and too bad if it bugged some people,
this insistence that it had to be
about more than essays or exams,
had to be something larger, so
she never relented, marking up papers
with abandon and fighting the
good fight as if it were one and the same,
this working for a better world,
this correcting grammar, which,
let’s face it, is
always a good
place to start.