Bony’s Grapeshot Solution

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A Whiff of Grapeshot, Australian poet, BLM protest march, Bony, Napoleon Bonaparte, poem, poetry, U.S. riots 2020

𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐲’𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

A “whiff of grapeshot” was Napoleon’s fix,
To lay waste to legions of riotous pricks.
But that’s not acceptable practice today;
“You’ll pay in blood later”, old Bony would say.

— D.N. O’Brien