well that is only fair as i just have to shut up and get a job - and at my
age that is quite difficult
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From: kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Apropos of nothing
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 22:54:27 +0300
thank you for drawing up this picture Ken. it's humbling to read of such
brain-fuckingly unjust treatment, especially in a country where a humane
healthcare system is not only taken for granted but overidealised. taxes are
high, so healthcare is cheap; but my uncle, now around 40, had to wait years
& years for finnish healthcare to do anything about his drug addiction, &
once he got it he was spurned & treated as a criminal. not to mention he is
now addicted, not to heroin, but to the methadone that was supposed to help
him recover.
another friend, whom I've mentioned, has debilitating CFS & finnish
healthcare won't even acknowledge it as a disease, & tells her curtly to
shut up & get a job.
it's the same story in every country. different versions, characters,
milieus, degrees. but it's all fucked up.
thank you for sharing your life with us.
KS
On 03/05/07, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>My grand 15 minutes in the Real World (ha), courtesy of a large New
>Jersey newspaper that ran with the story I gave them. I don't know if
>it will be accessible for much longer.
>
>ken
>
>http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070429/SPORTS/70429002
>
>--
>------------------
>Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
>
>"It takes a big man to cry. It takes a really big man to
>laugh at that man."
>
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