Tags
2017, 6*, begging, exploitation, giving, Have, identity, life, market, modern slavery, pavement, poverty, Rome, society, streets, walls
beggars placed disfigured
either side of a pavement
wept to the wall or knelt
at the paviour; snatched up
from somewhere the plastic
cuts shut, (there
to shame a thousand
passing pardons each to weave
themselves reassured
with bonhomie on the next
street corner, or sometimes maybe
to ladder a little
to give) exploited
to within a width of their life
making bruised a market
of the will to Have
both modern and en-slaved
to life
there is a distinct type of beggar on the streets of Rome which I have not witnessed anywhere else in Europe (and only heard about in India); the legend among Romans is that injured and displaced people are rounded up from poorer areas in eastern Europe, promised medical care (which often leaves them disfigured – all the better to inspire sympathy) and shelter, and kept in very basic conditions on the outskirts of large cities in Italy and taxied in every day to earn their living; there are gangs of people who exploit these beggars in this way – modern slavery
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giving wormhole: skeins of candy pink and lilac
Have & society wormhole: amniotic avenue
identity & walls wormhole: I
life wormhole: letting them go
streets wormhole: breakfast
