Destitution Its taste is rather unpleasant, dry and stale it weighes heavy on my tongue. I could streatch it all around me, cling to its feeble bones. But there in lies the agony, of holding on with little hope. If you could shed that weathered skin I hear someone implore, my answer is I wouldnt let my heart leap at the chance to explore, a life without such a suffocating chore. Hope is far more brutal than this suffering has ever been, to see it glinting in the heavens but for it to be so far out of reach. I watch the lucky ones sometimes, in thier joy and indulgence I see what could have been, food to fill my empty shell, and a smile with happy memories to tell. Even in my misery, I take pride in all I have, for there are certainly some that would think me spolt, in my richly stained rags. So I offer what I can, and that is these words I share, I hope they bring you something, because I have found in them little if not nothing.

it’s hard to love when you’re tired, it’s hard to love when you’re afraid you’ll lose everything

We’re passing a Staples store and a Courtyard Marriott and then a Target, corporate franchises that remind me of some larger narrative of this life that I’ll never be able to control, that this country of ours is a cold commercial machine, one that asks us to feed it and feed it, and whatever time we have left for our families we better use well, but it’s hard to love when you’re tired, it’s hard to love when you’re afraid you’ll lose everything.

— Andre Dubus III, Such Kindness: A Novel (W.W. Norton, June 6, 2023)

Man. Respect for the mobile boopers this is tedious

Psalm 82:3 (NLT) - “Give justice to the poor and the orphan;    uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.

Weegee, "Couple in a Bowery Bar," c. 1945,

Gelatin silver print,

Image: 71⁄4 x 91⁄8 in. (18.4 x 23.1 cm.) Sheet: 91⁄2 x 107⁄8 in. (24.1 x 27.6 cm.)

Courtesy: Christie's

Young Afghan girl living in an abandoned hospital on the outskirts of Kabul.

Source: Daniel Morin

NECROTIC PESTILENTIA-COWARD

A man is never so wholly destitute but that good fortune will not favour him with one more smile before he dies.

Halldór Laxness, "Independent People" (Vintage International, February 19, 2009) 

“PENNILESS YOUTH KILLS SELF IN HOTEL,” Montreal Star. April 7, 1932. Page 11. ---- MOOSE JAW, Sask., April 7 - (CP)— John McKinna, 21-year-old native of Tottenham, Ont., committed suicide in an hotel here yesterday when he drank the content of a bottle of poison. McKinna was despondent owing to lack of funds, but before he died he expressed regret at his act. It is understood he was en route to British Columbia to join an uncle engaged in the lumber business.

time to decide...

Our latest short film has hit the Tubes! destitute III (2023) is the final poetry short of the Pawn's introductory trilogy of films! The Pawn's journey of self discovery continues in this newest chapter! Watch it for free on our YouTube channel at the link below (link also in bio):

https://youtu.be/JbAb_jf_zt8

The Dry

My heart’s voice cries in the sand, oceans of mourning lost in the dry, lying, not listening, not understanding, as my end fire burns in the western sky, perpetually and always ahead of me, waiting for the last grain to pour from my side.

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Destitution: UK

Jonathan Pie

Destitution: UK

Jonathan Pie

At least the Bankers are out the woods.

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