“Thriving on Bad Feelings Gone Quiet”

 “Thriving on Bad Feelings Gone Quiet”

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán 

Thriving on bad feelings gone quiet/as appallingly familiar statistics become all too clear/proving to be due to cruel gender and age discrimination/

evoking severe personal crises throughout our tattered domestic lives/while haltingly looking sideways/to varying degrees/being told incessantly to gain stronger personal security/

yet still continuing to be effected by the endemic lack of opportunity/leading to fears of falling in and out of poverty year after year…