Tag Archives: poverty

Transparency

Posted on April 19, 2016 by toritto

Wild daughters Absent fathers Bourgeoisie bedrooms Nosferatu comes from Mexico to take your wife Utopias and horrors Ghosts and martyrs Doppelgangers Authority; insanity Fascists and Communists Psychiatrists, Psychologists The dictator is already present carrying out master’s orders Soulless Faceless men Power … Continue reading →

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Flint and Small Government

Posted on January 28, 2016 by toritto

I read an interesting quote a few days ago. “Flint is a conservative’s idea of smaller government”. Boy does that resonate. “The city, after years of cutbacks, was placed under a state appointed emergency manager in 2011 who had the … Continue reading →

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Billy and Me – New Year’s Eve – 1959

Posted on December 28, 2015 by toritto

New Year’s Eve, 1959. It was a mild winter evening in Brooklyn that year. A good night to be in Times Square…not that we were there. We locals always thought Times Square was for tourists. Billy and me were walking the Coney Island boardwalk. Next year – 1960 … Continue reading →

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Wage Slavery and the Student Loan Mafia

Posted on December 20, 2015 by toritto

“Student debt collectors have powers that would make a mobster envious”. Thus spake Elizabeth Warren and, if anything, she is understating the student loan crisis. We used to jail loan sharks. Now they run the likes of Wells Fargo. Student … Continue reading →

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Best Days

Posted on December 19, 2015 by toritto

It’s seventy degrees outside while at Walmart the Christmas music plays for those standing in line at the lay away counter looking in their checkbook mentally figuring out if they have enough to pay for the children’s gifts and next … Continue reading →

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Pizza Man

Posted on December 2, 2015 by toritto

Our pizza man is a super hero able to leap four addresses in twenty minutes delivering manna, loaves and fishes to the multitude Pizza man sped to his next stop like Santa Claus on Christmas Eve three large pies, one … Continue reading →

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White Sands

Posted on November 21, 2015 by toritto

before It wasn’t called White Sands even by those who lived there on dirt streets that dead ended north side of the creek. Houses where the eldest son never had his own room only a Castro Convertible to dream his … Continue reading →

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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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Keeping Up With the Joads

Posted on October 25, 2015 by toritto

We ain’t got no money honey but we got sunshine all the time. No job this year no house no more no future and no hope and it’s hot and dry this summer living here in grandpa’s house. Wish we … Continue reading →

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Paints and Ladders

Posted on October 17, 2015 by toritto

You gaze upwards at the ceiling peeling and covered in smoke from the candles lighted daily taking prayers to heaven You shake your head in despair;               it needs paint                         yet you are unable … Continue reading →

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