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Hey, Your Fly Is Open

It could have been me, It might have been you. Race and color is baloney, When another hurts you! Three huge men, watched a New York woman die. They even shut the door. I was both angry and wanted to cry. Her face was smashed by his gigantic feet. But those three men, who did not a thing, explain that to your maker when His face you meet! It's easy to stop disaster... stop being a wimp! Open your mouth, distract them, don't be a useless gimp. Here's a simple ploy, that stops any bully of a man! Yell......"Your fly is open," he becomes dis-manned. I did that myself on the streets of San Francisco! A man beating a woman in broad daylight, oh? Blood flying just everywhere, pedestrians ignored it? I just got in his face, told him  to stop hitting her this minute! Don't ask me where that courage came from! I just saw pain and wanted to stop the bum! He swore at me, in words quite unintelligible! Turned angrily away, and ran on the double. I helped the woman pick up her things. She said, thank you and went about on about her meanderings. "Don't be a wuss, and ever allow another to be beaten!" Being a good Samaritan means you are a credit to the human race. Something that neither time nor age can ever deface! When police are not in the area to assist you.... Support your fellow human, Walking away, I heartily eschew! Perhaps it was two beatings, I endured in Chicago Public Schools? That gave me the courage to make protecting another, my life's golden rule!                                  4/1/2021                    ~5~

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Date: 4/3/2021 5:00:00 PM
Panagiota, This got my attention quick. Though I find it harder to defend when it's not your turf. And it never seems to be anymore. I want you along side the next time I choose a dark alley allie. -Richard
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Date: 4/3/2021 7:23:00 PM
The entire word is your turf. But we wont stand up for the helpless. We cheer for looters, rioters and murderers. And I am fed up. Each year the list of craven bullies grows yet longer. Funded by Communists and world Governments. We weep over jungle animals like idiots. Never over humans.I do! I am weird. We don't realize how close the USA is near collapse. As we sold out to be fearful of being called a name. Stand by humans! Better to lose your life, than live on as a coward. Shame on all who turned backs on the good who are murdered. But march in support of killers. It's your world Richard..Own if, protect if. Do not buy turf nonsense nor group think. Pangie xx
Date: 4/3/2021 8:15:00 AM
The sad thing is that nobody wants to get involved. They are afraid they might get hurt themselves. A similar incident happened to my late aunt who was mugged in center city Philadelphia years ago. Good write.
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Date: 4/3/2021 10:54:00 AM
Robert, I think we should be Good Samaritans and stop being flagrant cowards. Imagine if you were the victim! And oversized clowns did not help you just filmed you! I am only five feet tall for heavens sake and just over 109 pounds. I want nobody hurt, robbed or killed because of my fear...I would do it all over again. That woman might have been killed had I not intervened, Sorry about your late aunt. Happy Easter, Pangie, xx
Date: 4/2/2021 4:10:00 AM
Fortunately, I have never witnessed this. You were very brave! I'm not certain I could do that without help. Kudos to you for this poem and your bravery. Madelyn McKay
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Date: 4/2/2021 5:53:00 AM
If you saw someone fall in a lake, I bet you would act and fast. This was before cell phones, too which people live on! They only photograph life or send texts or emails. Seems to me, their is a disconnect from the reality in front of us. I told Gershon, the teaching for me was Chicago Public Schools and the violent fights I had to stop. We all do what is necessary. He could have hurt me, too. But never thought of it.. Pangie xx
Date: 4/1/2021 9:42:00 PM
You get the Purple Poetry Soup Heart for sure, Pangie. Great job; great write. :) gw
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Date: 4/2/2021 5:34:00 AM
Thank you for that award. But saving her from that brute was a big reward in itself! I am not counting the number of violent fights in schoolyards in Chicago! I have no room in my heart for violence against another. So Chicago was my training ground, for the horrendous moment in San Francico. Hope SLIWA is elected Mayor of NYC and restores, both law and order. Thanks, Gershon Pangie
Date: 4/1/2021 7:37:00 PM
That was so brave of you to stand up to a bully beating a woman on the street. Bullies ought to be named and shamed and locked up forever with only being fed water and dry bread. Belle
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Date: 4/1/2021 9:07:00 PM
Belle, it was so violent! But he was beating her to a pulp. After he left, the young woman went on her way. I called the SFPD and we went driving around, I trying to spot the perpetrator. But we could not. My early training in teaching, wow. I had to stop fights. I learned from experience. Nobody taught us that. Girls with pierced earrings get them literally ripped off! I was a stranger to violence. But as I said, it found me. Being hit....with violence is a horrid, humiliating experience. It's like a punch through your soul. Thank you for visiting! Hugs, Pangie xx
Date: 4/1/2021 3:38:00 PM
What an experience you had but I applaud you for sticking up for that poor woman. People who pick on others smaller than themselves are nothing short of scum. Tom
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Date: 4/1/2021 3:49:00 PM
He was beating the H out of her. I did call the police. They said we are too busy. So I decided to do it on my own. People will walk by in such brutality? Yes. Yesterday a woman was killed in NYC. 3 huge men watched it, the killer stomped her face in Tom. She was on her way to a church service...I am sure you read about it. On video it's far worse.the scum was well over 6 feet, she was 5 feet. He also murdered his own mother. A gem of a man. Thanks, PANGIE XXOO

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