<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389265" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Walking Poor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">the walking poor, <br>from the housing projects, <br>and the trailer parks...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">month to month, <br>till the checks run out...<br>food stamp cards, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">small items stolen and pawned, <br>trading pills, or meth for<br>day to day...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the walking poor, <br>a multi-colored sea, <br>lapping at the shore of prosperity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">like a bastard dog....<br>salvation army dressed, <br>often mission fed, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">preyed on by the holy<br>bent on their salvation! <br>unemployment lines, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">struggling for GED's....<br>going to school just long enough, <br>to use the grants to survive! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">joined by the elderly, <br>foreclosed, and beaten.<br>in chairs, on canes....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">not enough for their med's, <br>not enough money to eat...<br>and now the factory ghosts, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">their lives sold out; <br>their calloused hands idle, <br>dangerous with anger....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">walking the streets, <br> staring in the windows<br>still open.....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with bricks in their minds, <br>small caliber handguns in their thoughts...<br>the walking poor....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">beating a path<br>...to the capital!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Cockrell">Eric Cockrell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389265" data-title="The Walking Poor de Eric Cockrell" data-description="the walking poor, from the housing projects, and the trailer parks... month to month, till the checks run out... food stamp cards, small items stolen and pawned, trading pills, or meth for day to day... the walking poor, a multi-colored s..."></div> </div> </div>

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