[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:51:19 -0700
On Oct 28, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Judith Evans wrote:
a hard week for bp
rubs hands in glee
(I really like the poem except for the last line, which doesn't seem
right poetically -- I also have doubts about it politically, though
I suppose Browne was at the helm at the relevant times.)
Yes and no. Baglan Bay's chemical plant was built, (full disclosure)
under my father's supervision, in the 1960's. Browne, and I find I
omitted the final "e" from his name, became CEO in 1995, so it's sort
of only his plant but Baglan Bay's history and the new green-ness of
BP was what I wanted to think about. In the final line I was trying
to play with "refined" and "finery":
May 2, 2007 -- John Browne stepped down as chief executive of BP PLC
yesterday, three months earlier than planned, after losing a legal
battle to prevent the publication of claims he let a former boyfriend
use company resources.
Tony Hayward, who was scheduled to replace Browne Aug. 1, takes over
the position immediately. BP, Europe's second-biggest oil company,
said allegations Browne misused resources were "unfounded or
insubstantive."
Browne's move follows a ruling by the High Court in London, that he
lied in his bid to block publication by the Mail on Sunday of
Canadian Jeff Chevalier's account of their four-year relationship.
Chevalier claimed Browne supported him with BP "resources and
manpower," and paid him a "large sum of money" over their
relationship, court documents said.
"In my 41 years with BP I have kept my private life separate from my
business life," Browne said in the BP statement. "These allegations
are full of misleading and erroneous claims . . . I deny
categorically any allegations of improper conduct relating to BP."
Shares of BP slipped 0.4 percent to 563 pence.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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