Poverty Spreads

[gmart]

Poverty Spreads

Politicians postulate
Talking heads speculate
Americans entrench
as poverty spreads

Oil moguls celebrate
Profiteers jubilate
Returning heroes contemplate
as poverty spreads

foreclosures accumulate
financial markets fluctuate
nest eggs evaporate
as poverty spreads

infrastructures deteriorate
health care costs escalate
Hopes and dreams dissipate
as poverty spreads

so I ask you
why do you just sit there?

[mtmynd]

gmart: "so I ask you why do you just sit there?"

it's a comfortable place, actually.

[stilltrucking]

so I ask you
why do you just sit there?

A good question.

I guess cause I own so much stock in Exxon.

[Doreen Peri]

This is a very astute poem.

Well done, gmart!

We're in a mess.

What to do about it?

I'd like to do something about it.

I was seriously thinking of moving to another country but i'm worried that everything's fucked up all over the world.

I don't know where to go.

Was listening to the radio a few minutes ago and they were talking about Brazil and how Brazil is experiencing a huge growth right now

I need to learn Spanish. Maybe I should go visit.

I'm sick of poverty.

I just got a $225 electric bill. Ugh.

I'm going to turn off the air conditioning. I'd turn the computer off, too, if I could figure out how else to make a living.

Thanks for sharing your poem.

[Perdida]

Enjoyed your poem gmart

I was seriously thinking of moving to another country but i'm worried that everything's fucked up all over the world.

me thinks everything's fucked up all over the world Doreen

[stilltrucking]

thought provoking poem gmart,
reminded me of this song for some reason But I am old, everything reminds me of something else.

Actually I don't have any Exxon stock.
But even so
these are my good old days.
What are you going to do about it, start a revolution?

[gmart]

thought provoking poem gmart,
reminded me of this song for some reason But I am old, everything reminds me of something else.

Actually I don't have any Exxon stock.
But even so
these are my good old days.
What are you going to do about it, start a revolution?

I'm too old to start a revolution too, I knew you weren't with the Exxon crowd by the rice link on your post. Liked the song. Thanks!

[mnaz]

Just sit there?

But that's just it. If everyone was just sitting there, maybe they'd have half a chance to put a critical thought or two together on the state of the state, and maybe you'd see million-family-marches on the capitol and things like that. Instead, everyone's running around like chickens, working their ass off making less to buy more stuff they can't afford, like good consumer units. It's the whole culture of this place! Work your ass off to "get ahead"... Where and how does activism fit into that time/energy matrix? No apologetics here... just observing.

Well......... just a thought.

[gmart]

Mnaz,

You're dead on. I guess when I wrote this I was thinking about the people that complain about conditions but wont get off their asses and vote. Everybody has time to vote.

[stilltrucking]

Yes I love to vote, some nights I toss and turn agonizing over who I should vote for. No not really, but I still love to vote. I spent four years in jail one fourth of july weekend earnestly asking the jail house attorneys if my arrest would mean I would lose my right to vote. I had them in stiches.


I am not sure there is anything wrong with people who own Exxon stock they may be doing more to feed the hungry than I am. But I am not an enlightened being yet. I am not aware of too many things

Love that song, nothing to do with your thread sorry, I might be missing the subtext here.

thanks for kicking off this thread gmart,
I appreciate any chance to scribble.