Resurrection Men

By paborama

Tue, 24 Sep 2013
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Resurrection, a Scottish answer
To pains imposed by regulation

When it comes to dissection
No one argument can rule us all

Protection it was for the soul
Before the empirical body arose

Election, Aye or Nay, assent or objection
The selection of a body fit for purpose

What’s the connection to times gone by?
Twixt old and the new, a bridge

Rejection, perhaps, of the ‘done thing’?
A correction as two worlds collide.

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Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Resurrection men -weren't Burke and Hare called this. And if the poems set in Edinburgh home of the parliament then 'a bridge' makes me think of the Bridges which connect the Old Town with the new. And the conceptual language makes me imagine the days of John Knox and how they may have debated in the Kirk. Seems to me that this is an interesting poem with a lot going on.       Elsie

Submitted by paborama on

Brilliant! If you get it, hopefully others will too :)  You have gotten all the salient points (although it's probably your cleverness more than mine).