Sack lunches and Soup Kitchens

By freudian-slip

Two hundred and twenty five bags of momentary happiness.

In each,
we carefully placed
tuna salad sandwiches,

cookies and chips.

Would you like coffee, water or tea?

Lets not forget the milk is saved for the children-
or the elderly.

These hours of preparation,
never could prepare my heart to descend so far into my empty stomach.

Empathy singed eyes

and while at this very moment I should be grateful for what I have...


all I can think about is why I'm not THEM.

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© 2008 the-rapist
Published on Sunday, March 30, 2008.     Filed under: "Personal" and "Poetry"
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  • freudian-slip On Monday, April 21, 2008, freudian-slip (236)By person wrote:

    coffee, tea or water to wash down your sack of sick? yuuuuuuuuuummm

  • A former member wrote: ewwww without the refrigeration the tuna is gonna spoil... blah. More like sacks of sick!

  • Alanarchy On Sunday, March 30, 2008, Alanarchy (1168)By person wrote:

    It's a humbling thing. Nicely said.

  • Reefer_rave On Monday, March 31, 2008, Reefer_rave (139)By person wrote:

    agreed

  • denver nitze On Sunday, March 30, 2008, denver nitze (251)By person wrote:

    loved it, way too high on cold meds to comment worthily, so i'll just leave it at wonderful write. meloncholy. ~ta~

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