Helping The Less Fortunate, Some Notes On The Subject

HELPING THE LESS FORTUNATE, SOME NOTES ON THE SUBJECT

(God Bless Everyone Who Ever Helped Anyone Still Feel Like Themselves)

I think the less fortunate

is a most unfortunate phrase

I know it's meant to convey kindness.

try this test at home while you've still got one.

home AND a mirror.

stare into a large mirror, or a small one will do:

one that hasn't been pawned yet.

murmur to yourself
I'm the less fortunate,

now try the whole phrase

as it usually occurs in nature:

helping the less fortunate.

helping me, the less fortunate, they are.

feeling the spirit of Christmas and the Star.

when you're not the one needing help

it gives you a little glow, doesn't it.

it used to give me that glow.

until I was somehow checkerboard moved

for some time, though I worked hard all my days

into that very cage of the extremely unpraised,

the less fortunate.

some kind of game piece indeed

then I felt differently.

no one believed me when I said I prayed.

I love God. Im not bipolar. I don't drink.

or run around all over town

They looked skeptical and kept on taking notes.

delusional I read upside down.

sometimes they seemed to be gloating

then I felt so detached I was floating above them

watching them from the ceiling

and saw they were doodling on the clipboard.

I saw they were thinking of lunch (their own).

I can tell you for sure

this is hard to endure

especially at Christmas

being considered "less fortunate'

watching the tv bolted to the ceiling

in the next to last place to ask

you're in that particular caste

knowing, they think you'd steal it.

bolts and all.

oh holly dolly

each time the kettle bell rings

nothing to carol about except the King

do you know what I mean

but He's the main thing!

little match girl stare into the flame

to find your Grandmother again

I want to say to any girl feeling this way.

it's as if they are calling your name

each time that they explain

this is for the less fortunate

you you you are less fortunate
not like me in my Italian heels
well matched with my dangly earrings

turned out as if for the Queen
making the non profit scene

it's not appealing to be dealt with this way.

unless you remember back in the day

that when Joseph and Mary

arrived at the inn even being less fortunate

wouldn't get them in.

I remember the less fortunate early martyrs

being fed to the fortunate lions.

no helping there.

it's not a feeling you want to share.

try it now. say it.

I AM THE LESS FORTUNATE.

are you walking on air?

I'M THE ONE YOU WANT TO HELP

HELPING YOU TO BUBBLE OVER WITH GOOD WILL.

I'm in that tribe.

while I'm alive I'm just that prop

with feeling still.

against my will

you make me sup

at the less than table wearing that label

and give yourself banquets in the sweet Spring

and prizes for doing oh everything

to help but you know some people

just won't help themselves

the banquetees agree

the honored speaker

when all I really need

is to feel like I am the same person

I was before

when I had my own door

and I know I am.though you don't understand.

Was Jesus the same man

when he hung on the cross

and they tossed the dice for his last garment.

Give HIM free clothes. Ask him what he's addicted to.

He'll answer Love. God.

all of you.

Show HIM how to make a budget.

who made the whole world.

how to make do with 15 cans of corn.

picture now yourself

in the self same flapping shoes

hearing your 'name' on the news.

"at this time of year, helping the less fortunate

disappear beyond all christening.

do you feel helped? feel Christmasy, do you?

do you feel You?

mary angela douglas 5 october 2018