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Posts tagged with hunger
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Child Starvation: SNAP
Poor children on the federal SNAP program (food stamps) are allowed $1.39 per meal. The average loaf of bread clocks in at $3.31. The cost of food in America moves around, it’s juxtaposed between what the market will bear, and a bear that would eat your bones alive.
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GoingRogue: SexWork: BoyWhores
GoingRogue. We’ve been traveling on my bike town-to-town, and we’ve been busy as all hell. I take Andrew with me because he was once a major whore. He raked it in. But drug dealing is more money. Like I care. As if. Andrew projects the tone of authenticity. He can…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Going Rogue We are the culture of greed, death, indifference, cruelty, mass incarceration, poverty, hunger, suspicion, hate, patriarchal monarchy disguised as democracy, and genocide. Within the context of that evil, bête noire – exactly how is that any different from the cultural nightmare that was ancient Rome’s legacy to the…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Eating Dog Food and the pandemic are overwhelming realities, here, in Appalachia. I see nothing in the media about how desperate it really is. On my block, people are eating their dogs. Not stuffing. The shame runs deep. Suicide runs deep. Hopelessness runs deep. Failure runs deep. Giving up runs…
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Sometimes I Ask Them to Build Sets
The stuff they build can be a HodgepodgeCollagePodge of objects all around them. Sometimes, they take photographs, rip them up, and tape them to the wall. Sometimes, the set will be taciturn and unforgiving. Sometimes, what they cobble together is nothing anyone could have anticipated. I do not critic this…
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There Is Hunger In America
Americans want to pretend that there is no such thing as hunger in America. There is hunger in America. Not quite a skeleton. Take his shirt off. You’ll see it. It will be in your face. He will not talk to you about it. Watch him eat. Watch him eat.
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Night Run
that first weight in my balls/ we run at night/ through the streets/ as if something was chasing us/ it was at our heels, hunger/ another thin rope as a high wire act/ the grocery stores no longer throw away leftover food in dumpsters/ we are on our own, and…
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My Appalachia
I do not know of a single individual in Appalachia who fishes or takes what is seen a food – not an experience – from either the woods or the water. It’s to eat, not to catch, and then release. It’s about survival. Picking wild herbs from the Appalachian hills…
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Your Bride’s White Dress
white people do not think about hunger because they are rarely hungry and there you on the corner and the twisting it’s always worse in the rain and then you ache with sucking old white cock my summary of what is wrong with this picture the lips and teeth of…
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he will not appear to be obviously at-risk 2u
but he appears to be at HIGH-RISK 2me i am tired of seeing it i said rock i am tired of no one else wants to look at it oh Ucare oh Ucare Oh Ucare LOOK at it LOOK at it it is not that subtle signs red flags timers…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
AIDS did not go away. There was no one to help. Or to listen. Caregivers. This was not going to be a vacation. This was not going to be just pop a little pill. Many people can pop that pill and they are fine. For some, the piggyback diseases are…
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sleeping on the floor
there is a cement brick embedded in my back we often sleep in empty rooms where we have slept before the sunlight slipping in like dust is an old story to the likes of us no furniture no computers just our phones no future no dreams no relief from sleeping…
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I’m Washing My Hair That Night
If there was a way to skateboard in a flood, we would find it. Business as usual. Intervention Is. Sometimes impossible. I have learned the hard way that you cannot impose interventions on adolescent boys twenty-four hours a day. It’s not my fault. I didn’t raise them. I am merely…