Our country is guilty of a multitude of injustices and wrongdoings. One of the greatest social injustices in American history is the imprisonment of the entire Japanese American population after the bombing at Pearl Harbor. Not only were Japanese Americans stripped of their constitutional rights as American citizens, but they lost their property and possessions […]
Month: March 2021
A Change of Circumstances
Most days when I saw her, she was sitting on a milk crate, empty paper coffee cup in hand, wordlessly seeking donations, and whatever change I had I gave her. But after losing my job, after the savings ran out, after my wife ran out, children too, (“bye, bye daddy”) I wound up living on the street where she lived.
I was invited into her home; it was spacious by cardboard standards.
“Take what you want. “
I did.
“Thank you, ma’am.”
Left her home empty.
Took all she had and left everything I took.
For all she had was imaginary.
