[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem

actually, the imagery is great (so I'll stop nit-picking!).



Judy Evans, Cardiff
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  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":

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