One of the phrases I grew up with
that seems to have lost its lustre
was the slightly militaristic,
if not sadistic, 'A short sharp shock'.
It was employed to describe the actions
of any petty bully, boss or 'authority figure'
over others where the authority rhetorically felt
that they were put on this earth
to 'put other people in their place',
somewhere underneath them.
Has UK society so levelled down
that nobody cares what their place is?
Or are we all now so numb to shocks
that all shock is now too blunt a tool
to have the effect on us it once did?
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