The Crime of Being Poor #poverty #criminalization #sonnet

The Crime of Being Poor 

 Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?  

With all the socialist accusations being made,

We do well to face the needy status and plight.

Homelessness: infraction with fine to be paid,

For loitering and begging. (Keep them out of sight.)

Having no habitation to drink in privacy,

A beer in public is a ticket to the clink.

The poor have no chits in meritocracy,

So hide or can them; gentries think they stink.

Debates on health insurance lack the needy’s voice,

(Testimony that would challenge those fighting change.)

For disadvantaged, emergency room is only choice

When health or life’s at stake, they can’t pre-arrange.

To push out or incarcerate the poor does rend

Our social fabric and will bite us in the end.

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