Christmastime
...Christmastime is coming
Creeping as slow as clunky computers or considerable holiday traffic
Checking calendars compulsively, but no commensurate haste for the 25th date
Carollers' cheer will cir...
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Categories:
caseload, christmas, longing, seasons,
Form: Pleiades
Caseworker, 1962
...In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A social worker had...
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Categories:
caseload, poverty,
Form: Prose
Hail To My Brother, the Dragon Slayer By Day
...No one can imagine the horrors you've seen
The terrible events that must appear in your dreams
You can rarely share the evil you've seen
It must encroach your soul, your entire being
Defending a tou...
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Categories:
caseload, brother, character, courage, jobs,
Form: Rhyme