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Tabled Scraps

high priority insecurity gastro-growling, a peckish fling in the food desert - not dessert - desert this lip service don't a mouth fill maybe one of five on the sleigh's edge gazing at the growling wolf of slowly going down, ground down into an early grave ground raw capitalism just too hard to digest so fasting though good for the soul distracts from light panging minds dreams sweet in the night next meal, the next meal what's the big deal you don't look distended so stop the pretendin' and gettin' over on us, the satiated shoulda waited for a fulfilling meal to steal and run like Jean Valjean with loaf in hand fleein' Javert's pursuit ravenous for justice but whose?, just us? or can anybody sit down, come around and partake the scraps for hunger's slake disability by definition means "not able", not "unwilling" but we all know some are "getting over" 'n' workin' the system 'steada workin' a wage but "working poor" still, for sure, is workin' for a livin', not freeloadin' on government or society and still are "not able" to make it, so who's fault is that I wonder? while sittin' here eatin' this cookie, trying to write a wrong, or corrected, feed some facts, for the peace of mind we all know and find, when fed, cared, and loved care for a bite of apathy? © Goode Guy 2013-03-31 http://inplainsight.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/12/17283055-5-questions-for-top-chef-judge-tom-colicchio-on-hunger-in-america?lite http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/film-on-childhood-hunger-opens/ http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/us_hunger_facts.htm http://turkeyclubamerica.com/ http://feedingamerica.org/ http://www.nokidhungry.org/ http://www.foodbankonline.org/ https://www.hungerinamerica2014.org/SitePages/Home.aspx

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Date: 5/14/2013 6:19:00 AM
Very nice poem.
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