Well, old romantics, this is the workshop mantra we use here in caring
Sydney. CHOICE is the term that tunes the community in to respect their
homeless people. Sorry folks, fill your art with what empathy you choose,
but outside political will must accomodate the ongoing ongoing ongoingness
of rich city-poor trash paradigm. And if statistics are yr thing consider
Mexico City where millions, live. commute from and die in oldage in a
cardboard box. It is truth, it is not heartless to make the observations or
the projection. To be silent is to hush it. I guess that art like poetry can
appear so useless and absent from the realness of the world.
?Alison strange comment, "Your attitude reminds me of how aristocrats used
to go to Belsen and throw food at the lunatics." This haunts/taunts me. What
do mean by this? I discussed it with a friend of mine today, we looked at
this set of postings, and came to understand that art cannot bear to resolve
much, it isn't in it's nature to do so - so really without adding to the
situation, art/poetry it is content to lament a reality - falling to
sentimentality normally. The thing which disturbs is how you sit here as
judges, wow! I do hope you can change a few things on this planet of ours in
the precious years ahead with yr eloquences(sic)!I think you will find you
have to resort to something stronger than your word games.
How many years has this list been going anyway?
cheers
Rua
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: mental illness--Ruark
> Re Rebecca's comment that:
> >And someone told me in San Francisco last summer that 90%
> >of the homeless in that city have full-time jobs, it's just
> >that even so, they can't afford anywhere to live.
>
> maybe not the percentage, but a lot here in Edmonton (which gets really
> cold in winter) & in the boomtown of Fort Mcmurray where the oil sands
are,
> are in the same boat. They either can't afford what housing there is, or
> there isn;t enough. Tent cities anyone? Again as winter snows approach...
>
> Not always a choice, no...
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Barbour
> Department of English
> University of Alberta
> Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
> (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>
> No one could be
> more hostile than a species enclosed in
> a chimney for a century or so they told me.
>
> Clark Coolidge
>
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