Tagged: wealth gap
you and little pete
you and little pete
spent half the day curating,
placing, and hanging
two hundred pieces of art, as
fires spread into a sixth night
.
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perhaps they have been
perhaps they have been
waiting for this moment,
placing the onus
of a child’s
learning on his or her
circumstances, family,
life choices – as
if there were already
choices – the curriculum
is here,
get online,
in line,
aligned
with our program
.
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according to this
according to this
morning’s report, only six
percent of those in
new york city homeless
shelters could access
the internet through
their shelter. this
spring’s best front
yard contest has been
cancelled, though
you prune the
azaleas, just
in case.
we are all connected
until we are not,
most at risk when
we forget that
we are
.
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in the theater of
in the theater of
dreams, there is a steady hum
all around us, a
low rumbling at this late
hour from those ready to rise
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: rumbling
the haves and the have
the haves and the have
nots rarely meet in neutral
territory, one
inevitably hosts the
other, begs to be comforted
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: comforted
under the same sun,
under the same sun,
one man’s trash is another
man’s treasure, merely
teetering on the sharpened
tip of circumstance, edge of wealth
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: teeter
counting down to the
counting down to the
end of twenty-seventeen
and civility,
we do not bat an eye to
the widening wealth chasm
.
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