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Granola Grenades for Gandhi

Audio Recordings / tagged Charity, Compassion, Homelessness, Poverty / October 26, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

“Even God himself dare not appear to a
starving man, except in the form of bread”
- Mohandas Gandhi
So many fellow women and men today
down at the corner of have and have not
signs asking for a little of what we’ve got
I’m a hungry homeless vet
They repoed my Lear Jet
Remembering the words of Gandhi
I’ll give them what they really need
and wrap folding money around a bar
to fit in your hand and throw pretty far
If they don’t like granola, that’s okay
Carnivores can afford to attack a Big Mac
and the thirsty are halfway to a six pack

Living Aloha

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Hawaii, Paradise, Poverty, Work / March 23, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On Kauai an average house
costs half a million or more
while half the people and more
still work for a minimum wage

Around a grass shack tenement
broken handles of tired tools
lie buried in lava gravel
and broken hands that held them
hold a cut-rate mainland beer

The wind from the ocean stirs
creaking limbs on a dry lanai
orchid's breath still whispering
songs of an old deep joy

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FOR THE HOMELESS

Audio Recordings, String Too Short To Save / tagged Poverty / October 29, 2004 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

FOR THE HOMELESS

On a cold corner
flying signs of the times
may you land softly

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