Unequal Measures
It is an obscene equation:
eighty equals three point five billion.
Lives hang in the balance until
we rework the Math.
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poverty
Greed
They drink from the common pool
And satiate their thirst.
They eat from the grand table
To appease their hunger,
growing fat as we are lean.
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Cheap reading glasses
10.99 a pair,
two for 16.00
black plastic
specks
enlarge the
world just
enough.
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paper doll
. . . paper doll
gently treated
. . . as if real
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paper doll
. . . paper doll
gently treated
. . . as if real
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Brazil
Tumbledown flags everywhere,
crime on days
in tumbledown streets.
making meals of it
on tumbledown flag days.
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Poverty’s Finest
Holding used, wadded
Scrap of weathered
Paper
No,
Not begging
For spare change
Rather,
Poverty at its finest:
~Teach Me To Read, Please!
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Take that, chiseler
She lies and cheats for food stamps,
they said, so they cut them in half.
Let that be a lesson to her kids.
About justice in America.
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The laundromat ladies
Every one of us is poor. Still,
we lend quarters, share tables.
With exquisite courtesy,
we look away when a
tattered bundle
falls to the floor.
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Brutalist
He deemed
#Brutalist
#Architecture
the highest
#aesthetic
he didn’t
occupy it.
She lived it,
in every
puncture.
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