We're
sorry if your definitions
of essential
and affordable
are
different from ours;
if the
things you can't provide for yourself
can't be
lived without.
You
should have thought about that
before
you chose to be born into
your
family, culture, and socioeconomic class.
Those of
us who chose more wisely
can
afford to imagine that we don't
need much
help at all.
Law is
tilted in favor of the haves,
because
the more you have,
the more
you need;
but there
comes a point when we notice
that
others are getting things
from
government that we already have,
even
things we've gotten "on our own".
That's
when we opt for politics,
knowing
that we'll get to decide
what's in
the line and who isn't.
After a
while, we begin to believe
that some
people aren't really people at all;
that God
loves those who can help themselves
and
everybody else is just lazy.
As
gratitude and humility evaporate,
they
leave a hazy crust of greed and hubris,
through
which we can neither
see nor
feel our neighbor.
We are
left to our own devices,
looking
down with contempt,
and up
with envy, skewed beyond recognition
to the
universe's parallel nature.
God help
us!
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| Photo by Jennie Roberts Jenkins |
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Todd Jenkins
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