"in the trenches"
what a circuit
that phrase has taken:
from the Western Front
of World War I, where the trenches
were cold, claustrophobic places
of mud and creeping mustard gas;
harbor & prison for shell-shocked
souls at wit's end
to become used by businesspeople &
politicians to describe metaphorical fights...
but there are no metaphorical fights,
they should be called metaphorical games
games have winners & losers,
but not the living & the dead
& the dying & the disabled &
the permanently disturbed
it feels like a frivolous bit
of linguistic creep as fighters
now stand on cold, wet feet
in muddy trenches
in Eastern Ukraine
talk of salespeople or
grassroots political organizers
as "in the trenches"
misses the point that everyone
in trenches is a soldier --
be they a salesperson
in the metaphorical "trenches"
of calmer days.
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something I published tonight was the same.
WP issue?
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I assume it must be a WordPress issue. I recently shifted to JetPack for phone posts after getting a bunch of warnings that I would need to because the old platform was going away. I haven’t made any settings changes recently, but will look through my settings to see if they changed defaults.
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l kept using the old system for the senryūwarehouse and it works fine. Incidentally, I have not updated it and still get stats.
I wonder if the problem is confined to ‘verse’. But it seems inconsistent.
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Yeah, that is odd.
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Yeah, must be a coding issue for verse. At least, I didn’t see any settings that could be wrong.
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PSS worth the visit here to read
thank you
DD
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thank you very much
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