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You believe the Heritage Foundation, there is no poverty.

Fritz Hamilton

    You believe the Heritage Foundation, there is no poverty. The people I saw huddled in a doorway, the mother & three young kids, weren’t there, the children cold & crying, the glassy eyed mother with no teeth, having them knocked out last night by her most recent lover, they are illusions, & the Southern California weather is not below freezing. All the other homeless I pass in the frigid rain on my three block trek home can’t really be there. The stats from the Heritage Foundation will show they don’t exist.
    I am making my tomato soup dinner by breaking 50 packets of catsup into a can I copped from a dumpster, after shooing the old woman away from it. Maybe she’d just eaten the contents & was leaving the can for me to make my soup. She is screaming as if the dumpster isn’t adequate as her home, when it’s more space than the woman with three kids packed into a doorway.
    I find a slice of bread outside the Baptist Church, left there by John before the beheading. I eat it in his honor, as the young woman gets into her BMW to drive off as a tribute to the Heritage Foundation & any other organization that finds no poverty in America. I find a big heart in the gutter; it’s been discarded after Valentine’s Day. It’s big & red & not one bit impoverished. I step over a crushed squirrel with the good fortune of being run over by the pastor’s black limo, & now it’s mercifully dead.
    But there’s no poverty in America, not in wealthy Pasadena. The Heritage Foundation tells me so. It’s right on page three of the L.A. Times. So rejoice! REJOICE! That baby starving in a doorway of Safeway & screaming her dis- content into the breast of her mother doesn’t exist. Rick Santorum & the Heritage Foundation will assure us of this fact, so rejoice!
REJOICE ...
! (&
if you run real
fast,
you can catch
John’s
head before it
rolls
into the manhole ...
!)



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