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The word I was looking for to describe the poem was hypocracy!

We talk – and talk
and talk - and suffer
for those who have
suffered a tornado,
or an earthquake.
a tsunami or
some other disaster.

We talk – and talk
with self-righteous 
anger about abuse,
child abuse,
elder abuse,
the abuse of our 
natural resources,
abuse of power.

We talk and talk
about politics as usual.
We read newspapers
and watch television.
We talk and talk more,
over cocktails, at a
party, or over lunch, and
then we go shopping.

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Mike Gentile

Date: 8/24/2021 4:03:00 AM

Barbara, you have captured the majority of us with this piece. Excellent write !

Barbara Peckham
Date: 8/24/2021 8:15:00 AM

Thank you for those kind words. Unfortunately we do tend to decry these things but then go about our day to day lives without actually doing anything about them.

Jennifer Fenn

Date: 8/23/2021 9:44:00 PM

What a sad, but true picture of what is happening here. Well penned, Barbara!

Barbara Peckham
Date: 8/24/2021 8:13:00 AM

Thanks so much for your comment. I do appreciate the read and the insight. We are so often complacent with our own lives.

Barbara Peckham

Date: 8/19/2021 2:27:00 PM

Amen to that Amen to that! And we do talk endlessly about problems but then go on about our business without giving any of them another thought.