el aleph
(Source: drunkonstevphen, via whiferdill)
January 08, 2012
Of Their Own Free Will
In America? People are poor
because they are lazy;
they don’t work hard enough.
They don’t use the right tone of voice
when they ask God for relief
from their 12 hour workday.
You can move on up!
After 30, 40, 50 years of menial service
for minimum wage, you can move up!
In America? People are poor
because they are stupid.
After college, you can’t be poor!
You voted the wrong crook
into public office. Again.
It is your fault you are poor.
No one is really poor in America.
Except for those poor in
persistence and Holy Spirit.
In America? The colored are poor.
Oops, I forgot. We only
use that word behind closed doors.
If your father was poor,
you deserve to be poor.
(It’s in your genes.)
Haven’t you heard?
Racism is over. We
put a black man in the oval office.
In America? People are poor
because they will not simply
choose the winning lotto numbers.
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December 09, 2011
"My soul is a key
Haiku written by one of my seventh graders.
Mortality is my cell
I want to be free."



