"Trickle" (P.o.t.D. 7/5/15, no rev)

Does your money flow,
Throughout our society?
...Or congeal, like grease?

"Under the Heel" (P.o.t.D. 5/21/15, no rev)

I feel such outrage
As the wealthy's money chase
Leaves me desolate.

"Poverty Laments" (P.o.t.D. 5/4/15, no rev)

Life becomes much harder when I'm so poor.
I worry on how I'll catch up on rent,
I can't buy food at the grocery store...
Where, oh where, has all of my money went?

I'm kept under thirty hours at my job,
Paid close to the minimum hourly wage -
So on healthcare.gov, I can still shop,
But without employer help, I do rage!

Sixteen dollars per month, earned in food stamps
Do not stretch very far - maybe four meals?
Does not eating right lead to muscle cramps?
I don't know. Doctor's fees are so unreal.

So, that's a peek at my painful pinches
Of poverty, at which my heart wrenches.

"Before the Fall" (P.o.t.D. 8/17/15)

Classes start real soon;
Unsure how they'll be paid for...
"It will all work out?"

"Trickle" (P.o.t.D. 7/5/15)

Does your money flow,
Throughout our society?
...Or congeal, like grease?

"Under the Heel" (P.o.t.D. 5/21/15)

I feel such outrage
As the wealthy's money chase
Leaves me desolate.

"Poverty Laments" (P.o.t.D. 5/4/15)

Life becomes much harder when I'm so poor.
I worry on how I'll catch up on rent,
I can't buy food at the grocery store...
Where, oh where, has all of my money went?

I'm kept under thirty hours at my job,
Paid close to the minimum hourly wage -
So on healthcare.gov, I can still shop,
But without employer help, I do rage!

Sixteen dollars per month, earned in food stamps
Do not stretch very far - maybe four meals?
Does not eating right lead to muscle cramps?
I don't know. Doctor's fees are so unreal.

So, that's a peek at my painful pinches
Of poverty, at which my heart wrenches.