Food Abandoned Poems

One night about a year ago, we heard whimpering at our door.
One of us had to get up and go, didn’t reckon for what was...

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This is the ending of "Because I Got Involved" - a 2-parter because of its length - 

“For making sure that what you couldn’t eat...

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Ducking into Nell’s Cafe’ to grab a noon-hour snack, I noticed, sitting quietly in a distant corner booth,
A little girl that checked the entire list...

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He was an abandoned innocent tot 
sent to an orphanage where havoc reigned 
each night he shivered in his tiny cot 
numb but brave he...

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Red hot desert sand bleak and abandoned,
Dried grass around the caves in the hills,
Digging a hatchet is found the ancestors left behind,
A thick heavy sadness...

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how can someone not know you anymore?
forswearing the very thought
that you existed
a total disclaimer of your name
cease to acknowledge your being
in adjure denial
it’s incredible
when one...

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Born then abandoned
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Your walk 
Through the wild urban path 
Under lampposts trees.
In vain you travel questioning 
The meanders of your grief.

The slimy paving 
Of a deserted gallery...

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I awoke one morning with nothing I knew.
How did this happen, what did I do?
Actions taken, different than words spoken.
I stood alone, my spirit broken.
...

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I whine and cry
Asking myself how do I get by?
With no money in my pocket
No food in sight
I would have to find a way to...

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A sharp elbow in my ribs,
Listen,she hissed.
The regular thumping on the back door
Brought me wide awake.
Stealing nervously to the passage window
I squinted out.
There bathed in...

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