Second Helpings

the children may go home
on Friday night and be hungry
until Monday morning,

starving silently since
Uncle Sam got stingy
with the second helpings

Reviews

[Mockingbird]

sounds like poor children who only get hot lunch at school and have nothing to eat at home. powerful message.

[Pax]

sad, sad, sad.... no child must starved...

[Kenneth The Poet]

Sometimes, governments are not always wise.

[Pax]

I think they're just selfish beings...

[Kenneth The Poet]

That's very true. I see it in different ways also.

[Kenneth The Poet]

It could be all better, if we calculated more.
This is awesome.

E.L.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thanks so much, E.L.

You're so welcome, this was one of the most intriguing, I must say.... I will finish your book soon.... very intelligent and great stuff!

[Coyote Poetry]

Won't be long. Rules of WW2 could reappear again. Bad thoughts create by this poem. Poor children pay for our sins. A excellent poem.
Coyote

[Kenneth The Poet]

Agreed. I am seeing it now at the school I work at.

[...]

~ the story here is really, really, really sad...
~ you speak your heart for the poor...

[Kenneth The Poet]

So very true. Thank you.

[.]

~ thank YOU...

[Ephialtes Jones]

they're all b******s!
they don't care!

[Kenneth The Poet]

Agreed!

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Why is it when they need to make cuts it is too the working class trying to survive instead of the rich who have plenty to spare? It never makes sense.

[Kenneth The Poet]

It is sickening. It seems to me that the less government is involved in things, the better.

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

I totally agree.

[Ed Hart]

yes, right-to-life, but not right-to-live

[Kenneth The Poet]

Agreed completely. The feds' lunch program is not allowing many native American children to get the nourishment they need.

[TLK]

Yes. Yes they do go hungry. And the reason for this is a host of related failings that, when they are old enough, they will be blamed for themselves.
Because poverty is your fault. It is your fault you are undereducated. It is your fault you were cultured to be hated and, as such, hate in turn. It is your fault that you are poisoned against the world, just because its possibilities were almost entirely denied to you.

Look! One in a million of your kind has succeeded. This shows that it is Down To The Individual. Take Responsibility For Yourself In The System That Governs You. You Have A Voice.

When people hold me up as an example of success, I can happily say that I had no part in it. I came out of my childhood and it was just that I was happy to learn to forget everything else. I struggled and stopped caring for long stretches but I came out with something. And you can always turn something into something else.

So, yeah, this poem made me think.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Yeah, now you can see why I dislike the American form of government. Representative Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all others.