Lord,
On 8th Street
Between 6th Avenue and Broadway
In Greenwich Village
There are enough shoe stores
With enough shoes
To make me wonder
Where there are shoeless people
On the earth.
Lord,
You have to fire the Angel
in charge of distribution.
Jack Agueros
There are so many ways the government can help its people
and it makes me wonder
why some people are left without help
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Lord,
on 8th Street
between 6th Avenue and Broadway
there are enough shoe stores
with enough shoes
to make me wonder
why there are shoeless people
on the earth.
Lord,
You have to fire the Angel
in charge of distribution.
--"Psalm For Distribution"
by Jack Agüeros
(from LORD, IS THIS A PSALM?, Hanging Loose Press 2002)
Rebels, (as you know) I love this poem. Thank you for posting it--& for putting Jack Agüeros' words forward. Just wanted to add this one to the mix. It's slightly different from the one that's posted--the poem should read like this...
I agree with what you say. In the case of compensation for exonerees & needed reform in our *justice* system, these words (re)remind me that we can never rely on the government alone to be the *angel of distribution*. No. In fact, we must rely on ourselves. We must rely on ourselves to support/to invent! programming & organizations. We must, as you do, call for the distribution of funds & services for our exonerees.
I salute you as you make this call for legislative reform. You have such energy & heart & mind & power to question this flaw in legislation--& to really create change, affect change, make change HAPPEN. Change you will see very soon. In our lifetimes. Next year, maybe. Tomorrow. Today.
I look so forward to seeing the work you all do.
Pa'lante, & ever, ever forward in this deep, important work.
*Aracelis
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