[identity profile] tijolos.livejournal.com
Hello everyone! Would y'all be kind enough to share your favourite poems about financial struggle? I'm feeling pretty drained due to lack of moneys, and I don't know. Anything helps.
Thank you.

As a giveback, here's some underrated Canadian poetry.


I've tasted my blood by Milton Acorn

If this brain's over-tempered
consider that the fire was want
and the hammers were fists.
I've tasted my blood too much
to love what I was born to.

But my mother's look
was a field of brown oats, soft-bearded;
her voice rain and air rich with lilacs:
and I loved her too much to like
how she dragged her days like a sled over gravel.

Playmates? I remember where their skulls roll!
One died hungry, gnawing grey porch-planks;
one fell, and landed so hard he splashed;
and many and many
came up atom by atom
in the worm-casts of Europe.

My deep prayer a curse.
My deep prayer the promise that this won't be.
My deep prayer my cunning,
my love, my anger,
and often even my forgiveness
that this won't be and be.
I've tasted my blood too much
to abide what I was born to.



xxx.
[identity profile] angabel.livejournal.com
The State of the Economy
Louis Jenkins

There might be some change on top of the dresser at the back, and we should check the washer and the dryer. Check under the floor mats of the car. The couch cushions. I have
some books and CDs I could sell, and there are a couple big bags of aluminum cans in the basement, only trouble is that there isn't enough gas in the car to get around the block. I'm expecting a check sometime next week, which, if we are careful, will get us through to payday. In the meantime with your one— dollar rebate check and a few coins we have enough to walk to the store and buy a quart of milk and a newspaper. On second thought, forget the newspaper.
[identity profile] ex-riverblue937.livejournal.com
An Ill Wind
by Louis Jenkins

Today there's a cold northeast wind blowing,
piling up ice allalong the water's edge.
The Point is deserted,
no one for fivemiles down the beach.
Just the way I like it.
The sand is frozen mostly,
so the walking is easy as I pick my way
through the wrack and drift.
Today I don't even leave footprints.
Wind, sand, sun and water.
A simplicity that defies comprehension.
The barest essentials for the imagination's work.
This shore has been pretty much the same for ten thousand years.
Countless others have been here before me,
musing and pondering,
as they walked down the beach and disappeared forever.
So here's what I'm thinking:
wouldn't it be great if one of them
dropped a big roll of hundred dollar bills and I found it?

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