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O Poor People

Let us invoke a healthy heart-breaking

Towards the horrible world:

Let us say 0 poor people

How can they help being so absurd,

Misguided, abused, misled?

 

With unsifted saving graces jostling about

On a mucky medley of needs,

Like love-lit ****

Year after cyclic year

The unidentifiable flying god is missed.

 

Emotions sit in their heads disguised as judges,

Or are twisted to look like mathematical formulae,

And only a scarce god-given scientist notices

His trembling lip melting the heart of the rat.

 

Whoever gave us the idea somebody loved us?

Far in our wounded depths faint memories cry,

A vision flickers below subliminally

But immanence looms unbearably: TURN IT OFF! they hiss.

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Elizabeth Smart
1913-1986 / Canadian
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