Cruel Choices - Poem by Raymond A. Foss

On their backs
on the least and the last
balancing the budget
on those who cannot speak

Cuts on the page
and out of their lives
cruel choices of expediency
easy duty, sometimes
goring another’s ox

March 11, 2011
written at House of Purpose Coffeehouse
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192591550772058
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Purpose/298439882520
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/The-House-Of-Purpose/357853918881
Hillsboro, NH
March 11, 2011
&
calling on the NH Legislature
and the Governor
to spare those without a voice
those who need us
from the severe budget cuts
that are currently planned
in HB1 and HB2, etc.
&
in part based on the testimony
http://www.nhepiscopal.org/index.php?view=article&id=125:testimony&tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&page=
of The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson,
Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire
March 10, 2011

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