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mikeandrew
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since 2010-11-18
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0 posted 2011-01-06 07:10 PM


Sitting in the doorways and sleeping in cardboard boxes
rummaging through the trash cans of despair this is the city
of brotherly love a place of great beauty, man made progress
of technological wonder, that merges the vastness of human
endeavors, sweeping its brush into the future and leaving
behind it's poor it's helpless to die under the ones and zeros.


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Rex Allen McCoy
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since 2000-01-30
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Sippin a Timmy's in London
1 posted 2011-01-06 07:26 PM


it certainly feels that way these past few years
~
lots to think about

ethome
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since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada
2 posted 2011-01-06 11:06 PM


Right on Mike!
We have sophisticated technological communication and yet millions are isolated from their fellow man in their rooms of escape.
Never to see the things going on around them.
Really enjoyed this piece.

Eric

ain't doin nothin at all just answerin the call
and kinda driftin away from it all

faithmairee
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since 2011-01-05
Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA
3 posted 2011-01-07 03:04 AM


a sad and deeply profound poem...nice work!

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

XGarapanX
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since 2008-06-19
Posts 1435
Antarctica
4 posted 2011-01-07 05:26 AM


This is spot on, laddie. Couldn't have said it any better meself.

·´~`·­»Garapan«­·´~`·  "Look! Crumbs on his jacketses... Heeee took it!"

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
5 posted 2011-01-07 10:22 AM


cold hard truth well done!
Lori

Amaryllis
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since 2010-05-20
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Mi now
6 posted 2011-01-07 10:29 AM


Well-realized... difficult truths, here. Great writing, MikeAndrew!

Amaryllis

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
7 posted 2011-03-16 10:03 PM


I missed commenting on this way back in January. But you can't blame everyone else for the fault of individuals. Yes, there are truly cases where someone, or some agency should step in and help. Look, I used to be there. I have done the street thing, sleeping in missions, Salvation Army, but I fought my way out of it. So can most of the ones who are there now.

~ My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. ~

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