By Ron Faust
At a baseball game I high-fived
A Big Pharma dude who maligned
Those who got a free medical pass
And how he needed to make a living
Health care for all was not his interest
Too bad 50 million have medical debt
Plunging themselves into desperate poverty
Skipping the high cost of medical attention
Another case of disparity was press coverage
Of a white sub imploding 5 Titanic explorers
While no rescue was made of 700 immigrants
Fleeing war and poverty for a better life
Life is unfair especially for the poor
Where helpless humans die anonymously
And the greedy prevail and are noticed
Who will stand up for the least of these?
6/21/23 (On occasion of seeking advocacy for those who are in desperate circumstances and need to be rescued)
—Ron Faust, a retired minister in the Disciples of Christ, is the author of such books as Poems Rising to the Occasion: Sweep from Insurrection to January 6 Hearings, Percolating Poetry, Unprecedented, and Poems for Lonely Prophets. The artwork is at https://www.pexels.com/photo/hands-of-crop-faceless-man-under-water-7457629/.
