Posted by David Kosh on March 24, 2005 at 08:38:55:
In Reply to: Having Survived Life East of Equity, Kinda. posted by LiBbey Joplin. on March 05, 2005 at 03:39:45:
Like your writing LiBbey. "Having Survived Life East of Equity, Kinda" is a very moving work.
warm regards,
David Kosh
: Having Survived Life East of Equity, Kinda.
: LiBbey Joplin.
: Sundown, second week..
: Month's end?
: Bittersweet half way, unsung...
: Folks outta food again.
: Hard to breathe hope once Life's wounds
: Go Social Assistance.
: Madame Citoyen Avec Culotte,
: Save us from depraved socialized indifference?
: October rains a cold,
: Too tired to revel in Life's joy.
: Yes, sleeps the harsh knowings of dreamt direness.
: Awake, awake four walls 2:38 am,
: Hunger..
: Buried alive in penalty,
: After the fact of injury
: Is the hour's chill.
: And the little birds I know say paupers can't be choosers,
: but folks fight to sing, all the same.
: Bones hurt to move/ Ontario Works? No, no and no.
: Then, in a faithful moment,
: Give a dawg a bone,
: A burger may become the good mental health of a small comfort.
: Yet, the hut you crash iz a likely trick done according to Hoyle.
: Yes, sicker-by-the-day desiccates the unfortified.
: Ontario Disability Support Program Act is a legislated lament.
: Nine years Machiavellian-Altruism
: ruined us in untold ways.
: Cupboards bare,
: Kraft-Dinner and do-more-with-less ain't no goodness
: to be named healthy.
: O'Mercy, fiscal conservatism..
: Wounds upon wounds--Misery as dignity?
: Sad, the anxious suffrage of Survivors
: is the measure of "Our" society's worth.
: Poverty, it's a wicked business--Scurrilous, yes?
: Guess, it's the scrooge in each,
: that's the custodian of making crazy.
: So, now some work late to build equity in the Ontario of 2003,
: And counting--There in civility stands: "Injury, Privation, Neglect and
: Disservice,"
: They are the daughters and sons of much misrepresentation.
: Poverty's Survivor,
: In the End and so the Beginning
: it's a 24-7 act of courage!
: And there in umbrella's rat carried on playing in the rain,
: Singing: "Aucune crédibilité sans qualité de la vie--No credibility without quality of the life!"
: Oui,
: Ne lâche pas--Faites, société civile!
: All in confustication,
: just the signs of "Our" times...Those whom are said to be,
: Far upon high,
: Kingdom come,
: Rex Maximus, erat rex nomine,
: sed non postestate.
: A finger'd rebuke for the Kings in name,
: but not in [T]ruth,
: nor power.
: Ah wonder yeass,
: Shine on,
: In praise Poverty's Survivor!
: EnD.
: ©2005 LiBbey Joplin, all rights reserved, Toronto, Canada. End of the Block Ink. Outil édité d'enseignement, institut dans la gestion et développement de la Communauté, Université de Concordia.
: Montréal, Québec.
: This poem is dedicated and written for all those living at or below the poverty cut-off line--Meaning, all the working poor, beat for broke ailing vulnerable and System-Survivors living with disablities,
: who are "Our" Society's disenfranchised living at risk of social assistance, homelessness and/or homeless, everyday.
: Reflection: "I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet I assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by
: getting off his back." - Leo Tolstoy.