Best Averting Poems

when did the “upstanding citizen”
learn to avert their eyes 
when stepping over a homeless person on the way to
their place of work?
when were such people taught that
the horrors of the world will never actually affect them &
that the best that they can do is 
“live...

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My head hurts
Stupid weather...always changing
Pressing in on me
Iron bars, clanging, banging

.........ugh! Can't THINK

This has been on me, for days
Like water in a wicker basket
Always draining, but always there
Maybe it's me
Why are THEY on my mind
THEY are gone, and I'm left to find
Something
While THEY move on...so...

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