“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation” -- Abigail Adams
In the moment we have before us
rebellious news is on the way
noticing what is momentous
it is not what people say.
Hers will be a curious comment
that catches your ear -- the sincere
way she looks and suggests intent
to take action once more to foment
the crowd, the people, the masses.
Until the moment, the now, it passes.
*To "foment" is to incite or rouse {the rebels fomented a revolution}. Although the word was once used as a noun -- the OED records sparse uses from 1540 to 1892 -- the corresponding noun has long been "fomentation" (= incitement, instigation).(Garner's Modern American Usage)
from Geography Lessons, 2011 - James Henderson
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