Tag Archives: hunger

A Reading From the Book of Joad

Posted on October 29, 2015 by toritto

They breathe profits they eat the interest on money if they don’t get it they die the way you die without air, without side meat. The bank is something more than men I tell you; it’s the monster Men made … Continue reading →

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Deaf and Blind

Posted on September 3, 2015 by toritto

Pietà Do we faintly hear the wail of women over shrouds of sons and daughters? She fed them just a bit ago now they’re gone taken by an errant bomb. When she gonna rid herself of all that baby weight? … Continue reading →

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Original Sin

Posted on May 15, 2015 by toritto

And the prophet said “You have to draw the line somewhere” and he wrote it on a wall in the men’s room of a fine restaurant. And the keeper of the toilet wiped the scripture from the wall with a … Continue reading →

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Might Have Been

Posted on July 9, 2014 by toritto

If we had only clothed the naked fed the hungry cured the sick protected the weak sheltered the homeless welcomed the children Oh what a nation we might have been! ————————————————- photo: www.studentnewsdaily.com —————————————

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