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VICTORIAN POVERTY CRIME AND SQUALER.
Contributed by
moogster
on
Sunday, 14th October 2012 @ 04:06:44 AM in AEST
Topic:
AmericanTragedy
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Born into a life of poverty hardship and squalor
where hunger bites and crime is rife
in the dirty crowded cobbled streets
where it's a daily battle to stay alive
and find some food to survive.
Uneducated illiterate
caught in the poverty trap
drinking polluted smelly water
from the same typhoid cholera
ridden tap.
An impoverished woman
sells her body
for a bottle of gin and lodgings for the night
a pickpocket and mucher ever watchful
looking for a victims pocket to alight.
Children run through the streets
dressed in rags
no shoes dirty feet
the putrid smell from the gutter
Smoke from the choking bellowing chimmnieys
make it hard to breath
rats as big as cats scurry and spread disease.
Dilapidated buildings covered in black soot
horse manure and raw sewage under foot.
Beggars flea infested with large mournful eyes
reach out pleading to passing gentry
to fill their bowls with plenty.
A peeler pins a notice to an old rusty nail
of a forthcoming criminal hanging at the local Gaol
for those few who could read.
The street wise barrow traders
shout and husstle
among the throng and bussle
Copyright ©
moogster
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2012-10-14 04:06:44]
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Re: VICTORIAN POVERTY CRIME AND SQUALER.
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by deusdeira on
Sunday, 14th October 2012 @ 05:54:07 AM AEST
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| a vivid poem for me. poverty is such a bane on humanity. if only there were more solutions and less problems in the world. |
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Re: VICTORIAN POVERTY CRIME AND SQUALER.
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by northernlights on
Sunday, 14th October 2012 @ 02:04:18 PM AEST
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| When you realise how people lived then and still have to try and survive now it's time to count your blessings.Poetry is always welcome when it challenges our way of thinking and you have done this through effectively bringing a different era with all its problems that still has a huge relevance to today. |
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