Excess Has a Permanent Address

Donney Rose
Dec 23, 2020

12.23.20

i think i know where the money resides. the same place it always has. within the accounts & stocks & shares & retirement funds & blood-stained coffers of the advantaged. the etymology of working-poor was not mouthed from a place of contradiction. america literally makes allowances for you to work yourself to death. honor your contributions to its stockpile of revenue. then mail your loved ones a scant offering they have already paid into.

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Donney Rose

I am a poet, educator, essayist, activist & cultural critic from Baton Rouge. I write things so that things make sense even when they don't.