Category: inflation money poverty
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Pot roast
sitting by the fire I wonder about circumstances surrounding the cooking of vegetables, fruit and flesh was it ancient revelation, a fortunate accident, or maybe it was a divine accident either way, we are blessed and cursed, stuffing ourselves at tables while others suffer the circumstances of birth place and starve 1-9-26
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haiku in time of rising food prices
during inflation hungry mice eat any cheese and don’t demand Brie 7-2-22
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Fried boloney sandwich
He gives one night a month to the homeless And feels good about his service. Until the day she walked in With her life in two black trash bags. _____ At 16, she lied about her age, Worked the line for minimum wage. He was a college intern working on his resume. She took him…
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for want of a piece of hose
Years ago, I’d ride a stolen bike across campus to the grounds shed, rake leaves in large piles for a truck to gather and carry away, sit in class, leaf mold and debris on jeans and boots, compete with the leisure class for grades, laugh at sorority girls who’d pull at short skirts if I…
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Under a bush
walk in wet leaves off the paved path listen to muffled rustling empty beer can under a bush why not hold it a bit longer? how many homes for the homeless could the trees in this park build? how many homes sit empty, because banks and landlords want money? need in want of a solution…
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Slaughterhouse
If goats knew why they were raised and could vote would they need to be reclassified essential goats before they could be sacrificed? (A short poem dedicated to those who need a job to feed their families and labor in meat packing plants that the POTUS ordered to stay open) 5-10-20
My husband's poetry 