UNCLE SAM AND DAVY JONES
 
Taxpaying American citizens
    confront poverty once a year,
just as passengers on man’s great triumph
    once confronted mortality.

Do you think it’s a coincidence that
    the day of our descent
is same as it was for the Titanic,
    the fifteenth day of April?

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Reprinted from the 1999 Open Door.