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Beggars.
BEGGARS
feet - little feet - bare feet - thousands of little bare feet bleed - keep coming with dirty toes to tread the shiny marble tile in front of the
BANK of BANGKOK
hands - little hands - filthy little hands -thousands of pairs of palms upturned - with grimy fingers - beg the pure linen suits walking by the
BANK of HONG-KONG
avid little hands rush - soft little hands fondle eager travelers - angry little digits grab at leather briefcases outside the airport in
MANILA
eyes - big round eyes - hungry eyes covet the jewels on the opulent ceilings fit for the tourist in
ROME
eyes - big brown eyes - beg for little sisters - and old mothers out of brochures of profiteers in the
FIRST WORLD
teeth - little white teeth - grin on the steps of cathedrals - cursing the faithful and the fulfilled in
MEXICO CITY
bad little teeth - competing little teeth - plead under the grand arches of world renown in
SAO PAULO
bellies - big round bellies - full of despair - full of air - protrude from photographs in the press of
NEW YORK
big bellies full of youth that will never see future - round bellies full of tomorrow's misery - crawl in visceral agony on benches in verdant parks - between bums and crumbs in
YOUR CITY
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unspoken, you found me, now i'd like for you to take this model and write us a piece about what your eyes have seen around you...one small detail at a verse.
no fluff, just one picture, one emotion or one flash of reality. that would be!! |
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Comment by: - 2008-02-27 14:30
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| Wow, amazing poem. I love the style that you used in this piece, it flows very well. Continue the great job. |
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This is so well expressed. You give one powerful picture glimps after another of the fundamental thing wrong in this world.
Poverty, more than in any other aspect of life, I think, is where too many of us blame the victim. ‘If only they’d get of their bottoms.’ or worse, ‘God made it this way.’ (i.e. put me conveniently on top of the pile) At the very least, we must be willing to look poverty in the eye and see it for the grinding scourge that it is.
Writing about it so vividly, putting it out there, you are helping us do just that.
Thank you. |
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yes goodmoses,
it is indeed too easy to allow poverty to ruin entire generations of entire segments of the world population.
it is so easy to turn the eye elsewhere when governments purposefully deny others their basic rights to live in their own lands on their own terms.
it is easy to shut down the mind and spend the planet away in obscene excess. at the cost of other's health and well-being.
but how could we live and allow such disregard, after we become aware of such blatant abuse? this writer can't sit and ignore it. |
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Poverty isn't confined to any one country. It pervades modern society. The frustrating thing is that this same society that helps to keep them down has all the potential and tools to uplift them into the arms of comfort. But I'm afraid that we don't care enough.
Thanks for the reminder. |
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