I died because I'm poor. (Compassionate mod kicks in a penny for the funeral)

Poet | I.C. Howe

[phoenixrising47]

I died because I'm poor.

I'm floating in the water. My Mom is accross from me. Mosquitos swarm around us. They're our only friends.

I'm in the United States. Of, America. Not Vietnam. I'm not on T.V. It's really me. I'm dying 'cause I'm poor.

Mama's eyes are fluttering. Like a butterfly. This is real. Please, people. Not a photo op. I'm dying 'cause I'm poor.

I spit on Mama's lips, to give her moisture. Her face turns cold. I'm crying 'cause I'm poor.

Oh, Mama! Dear sweet Mama. I wail into the sky. Where's that promising Bush? Mama didn't have to die.

Now it's my turn. I hear the helicopter, but have no strenth to go out on the porch. I'm dying 'cause I'm poor.

I hear the rotors of the blades. I'm hugging Mama. Get her warm. Oh, Mama, it's come to this. We're dying 'cause we're poor.

I reach out to the men. And suddenly it's black. My life's film has broke. It broke 'cause I'm poor.

It broke 'cause I'm poor. It didn't have to be. We did better in the Tsunami. We did better in the war.

We died 'cause we're poor

by I.C. Howe

[robertpaulsen]

Get a job.

[Sloth]

I hope this was you:

[PeteB570]

No, you died because you were stupid.

[sitetest]

In before the zot.

[Peter W. Kessler]

I don't see how.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Related to I.P. Daily?

[Perdogg]

[50sDad]

I am a angst-filled teenager.

I wrote this for a school anthology.

I hope it sounds depressing.

My public education cost more than almost anywhere in the world.

I got it for free.

I live in the greatest nation of the world...

But I won't write about the billions killed by Communism...

About the billions killed by socialist dictators...

About horrible conditions in other nations where warlords kill for fun.

Nope, I'm going to whine about microscopic problems in the greatest nation on earth.

Because my Leftist, liberal, hate-filled teacher

will give me an "A" for that.

[Madame Dufarge]

Since you're dead anyway, can I have your stuff?

[ArrogantBustard]

I died because I'm poor STUPID.

There. That's better.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"I think that I shall never see,
A poem as stupid as this one..."

~Wadsworth, or Somebody

[6SJ7]

Phoenixrising, eh? Soon to be phoenix barbecue. Beebers on full stun!

[starbase]

by I.C. Howe

Not to be confused with Seymour Butts.

[SoftballMominVA]

You died because you trusted your local officials to be your true parent instead of getting the hell out of there.

[USNBandit]

Hey, is that your momma's car sitting flooded in front of your home? Maybe you should have listened to the T.V. and taken the car out of town.

[torchthemummy]

I concerned member of the Human Race.

I concerned (sic) member of zot patrol.

Really the quality of trolls has gone down bigtime. These drive-by ideological idiots don't even take the time to write something with substance when they have all the time in the world to prepare.

[MadelineZapeezda]

Did Elian write this ?????Before Klintoon sent him back

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

phoenixrising47 is going to come back as a higher life form then IT is now. Maybe a moon bat?

[AdvisorB]

Maybe if you and the other RAT supporters hadn't voted for "school-bus nagin" and blanco the blank slate, perhaps you'd be alive today.

[OpusatFR]

You are dying because your corrupt Mexican government, the fifth richest country in the world, refuses to help you and the rest of the poor Mexicans.