Salvador Dalí arranging a tableau vivant for In Voluptas Mors, photographed by Philippe Halsman, 1951
More Americans lived in poverty in 2010 than in any other time that records have been collected, according to US Census data released yesterday. Median household income fell, too, and a growing number of people are without health insurance.
An additional 2.6 million people became officially poor last year, raising the poverty rate from 14.3 percent in 2009 to 15.1 percent. It was the fourth year in a row that the ranks of the poor grew, and Sawhill predicts poverty rates will rise to 16 percent by 2014.
Even compared to the depression? Has the line of ‘poverty’ changed?
darkness
when she was small the idea of existence was unreasonable
but as she grew the coils of her being wound tighter and tighter
until the idea of non-existence seemed more unreasonable
then existence ever seemed
at night was the only time confusion set in
Difficulties breathing sometimes
On a precipice looking out over the infinite possibilities and wondering how I got in this cage? A dream, a pain, a heart, full of love; all there was to do was shut my eyes wonder, who am i ? I found myself not by looking at my sneakers or polishing my brilliance, but by locating from Love, it’s self. Sometimes I can’t get angry I can’t cry, so I pretend. There is discomfort and I rub up close, I try to seduce it with honesty and see through it. “LEAN IN CLOSER” I say to me. A tear. A tear. I love you forever, bleeding always.
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Had to post. Made me laugh.
