SHRED THE SOCIAL SAFETY NETS

shred the social safety nets

Marilynn Mair (Celebrating a Year)

Into the Bardo Contributing Writer

shred the social safety nets
we cannot afford fairness
this is as good as it gets

for the future don’t make bets
poverty powerlessness
shred the social safety nets

any lingering regrets
are pointless though it’s a mess
this is as good as it gets

what ill mechanism lets
governments pleading blameless
shred the social safety nets

as the rich hide their assets
pretending with false distress
this is as good as it gets

and our silence aids abets
while willful lies egregious
shred the social safety nets

is this as good as it gets

Marilynn Mair – author, world renown mandolinist, and blogger – wrote this beautiful sympathetic villanelle in response to Charles W. Elliot’s piece HERE, “Mindful Steps to the End of Hunger.”

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5 thoughts on “SHRED THE SOCIAL SAFETY NETS”

Most excellent … and that would be the short take, somehow, knowing that the long take would be filled with excessive political angst.

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I guess this is the nature of the Bardo. Obfuscation and illusion. A good place to practice kindness, even if that is out of vogue.

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Thanks for your comments– Jamie pointed me here to read them. I love working out an idea within a formal constraints of a villanelle, sonnet or other classic form. A short take, yes, and inspired by the original post.

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Raven says:

April 5, 2012 at 12:37 AM

Most excellent … and that would be the short take, somehow, knowing that the long take would be filled with excessive political angst.

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michaelwatsonvt says:

April 5, 2012 at 5:50 AM

I guess this is the nature of the Bardo. Obfuscation and illusion. A good place to practice kindness, even if that is out of vogue.

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mairmusic says:

April 10, 2012 at 6:03 PM

Thanks for your comments– Jamie pointed me here to read them. I love working out an idea within a formal constraints of a villanelle, sonnet or other classic form. A short take, yes, and inspired by the original post.

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Thank you for sharing the beauty and inspiration:

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