“Sometimes, nothing can be a real cool hand.”
(From the film, Cool Hand Luke.)
Failure to communicate
The saddest thing of all
Resort to brutish cruelty
Let them take a fall
Cool Hand Luke is smiling
Paul Newman’s happy grin
But someone with no eyes to see
Has it in for him
A woman murdered on the street
A man arrested now
A missile on a market place
Putin’s language now
And migrants dead inside a truck
We’ll get there anyhow
And a mother seeks her girl’s remains
Faithful to a vow
Newman plays the Christ like man
Innocent but oppressed
His sunny smile shines over us
He’s beaten but he’s best
And we must walk the brutal road
Chain ganged to our fate
But rise each day and pray the Lord
Let us communicate
Brian Fahy
28 June 2022
+ Items from today’s news…
– Zara Aleena murdered on the street as she walked home.
– Missile strike hits Ukraine shopping centre
– 46 migrants found dead in Texas truck
– Mother of Helen McCourt still looks for her daughter’s remains
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