Home » All Issues » January 2012 » Last Days
- We have forsaken the fallow
- fiftieth year, the seventh
- sabbath, the jubilee
- of justice, displacing orphans
- and widows
- for Wal-Marts, creating factory
- farms where gleaning is given
- over to the bottom line, threshers mow
- men, women,
- and wheat indiscriminately,
- looking to create a tomato
- as large as our hearts
- used to be.
- We go sweatshopping
- for clothes and tchotchkes,
- changing fashions as frequently
- as channels, pushing the broken
- under bridges, to other countries,
- while our prophets preach
- prohibitions and hate instead
- of lifting up love, forgetting a poor man
- will sit on the right hand
- and judge us all.
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