Monday, January 28, 2013

despair and abandon


The doctors have kept my mother and father alive

but

something is missing:

help that's not there.


My parents are alive,

but,

they are socially isolated.

They have not got the comfort of children

nearby.

They have not got the comfort of their children's children

nearby.

And why?


Help is rationed to them now as it always has been,

un-generously.


Generosity is devoted

To sharpening the tools of a bloody economic system

that serves a small minority.

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