lottery
Lottery tickets
give a moment’s relief from
Puerto Rican lives.
Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by all the pressures and tragedies going on.
The misery of natural disasters and people who are desperate for water food and medicine is too much. I can’t even focus on my own challenges and disappointments.
The President and his henchmen are too busy golfing, tweeting about mayors and athletes, lying to the voters, obstructing justice, defending racism, squandering tax dollars to fly free and then cutting taxes to enrich themselves to even notice what is happening to Americans across the country.
When the Red voters lose their insurance or never get jobs again, then will they be willing to admit that they were tricked by the world’s #BiggestLiarEver ?
Missed Connections are filled with good, bad and heartfelt-harangue-haiku. Did you write one? Did you find one? First, make sure you’re registered to VOTE, and then email the link to Lovelorn Poets. We’ll preserve those no-so-silently-struggling-syllables for all eternity.
