ORGANIZER: Bill Costley
CONTACT: billcostley@yahoo.com
Hello, I’d like to register an event for Sat. 24 SEP at Valley Village Retirement Community in Santa Clara CA by the ‘other’ St. Mark’s Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Santa Clara CA. Participating poets include Bill Costley, Anita Holzberg, Karl Kadie, Sharon Martin, Katherine Wilson, Ginny Zeitman & others yet to opt in.
Here is a poem read at Valley Village, Santa Clara CA on 24 SEP.
Repugs Conclude
A time-traveller asks
R-presidential candidates
to discuss welfare: First
they call it workfare, then
they call it payfare.
Devoid of any idea
of a life worth living,
they won’t consider
population control,
finally reaching a really
Repugnant Conclusion:
A world of miserable people
is more affordable than
a world of happy people.
(15 SEP 11, Santa Clara CA) v5
When you think of it
(if you do think of it),
money’s relative:
tiny amounts of money
prime the dry sumps
of crushing poverty;
obscene money creates
overwhelming disparity.
Correct that disparity.