Dignity Not Cheap

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Francois Lachance

The poverty of means…

Exercises for Ear
(The Ferry Press, 1968)
Stephen Jonas 

XII
in america
          the rich
are poor &
  
          the poor
outraged
        since no

peasant tra-
            dition
to lend

       dig-
nity to cheap-
              ness

… the riches of reading.

The rich are cheap and lacking in dignity because their efforts require no sacrifice. That’s one way to toss the coin.

And so for day 2254
13.02.2013

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