The lot of most of mankind throughout all of history has been abject poverty. Not the artificial kind designed by advertising instigated by insufficient quantities of de rigeuer commodities, but from the reality of the eternal, relentless mortifications of the flesh -
disease starvation and exposure to the elements.
Subtraction from healthcare, food aid and home heating assistance in the Killing Floor U.S. Budget showcases the depraved indifference of the wealthy and corporations who have purchased tax cuts and subsidies with pounds of flesh incised from the poor prior to knocking them to their knees
for slaughter in the economic abattoir by means of the eternal, relentless mortifications of the flesh -
disease starvation and exposure to the elements
from which The New Deal and Labor Unions temporarily delivered us.
Demons of Greed and Depravity currently control corporations Congress courts even Christianity
inciting each ME in We The People to abandon solidarity for a chance to gaze down in exquisite contempt on the rest of struggling humanity.
But this small, exclusive fraternity of the few has not enough room for most of the many, and simply insures their self-destruction and their ongoing submission to tyranny
fettered by eternal, relentless mortifications of the flesh -
disease starvation and exposure to the elements.
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." - Frederick Douglass
- Vi Ransel
Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).
