[Newspoetry] Mother's Day Celebrations: Prelude

[Donald L Emerick]

NewYorkTimes 7MAR03
Welfare-to-Work Study Finds No Harm to Children
By ROBERT PEAR
Poor children suffer no psychological damage
when their mothers move from welfare to work,
as millions of women have in recent years,
a major new study says.

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Mother's Day Celebrations: Prelude

Some folks say that moms today
no longer add value to the homelife,
because their children do not suffer,
or do not appear to suffer, harms,
whatever they might happen to be,
whether the mom is in the home,
or the mom is gone out on a job,
gone out to earn some money,
to feed and clothe kids, perhaps,
or to buy what it takes to live,
maybe, even, fat chance I know,
to buy some stocks and bonds,
to invest, save capital in futures,
which differs a lot from gambling,
because you get a piece of paper,
certifying that you own something,
as opposed to a racing form ticket,
also printed upon a coupon paper,
which becomes worthless sooner.

Modern moms no longer add value
to the home in old-fashioned ways,
by being the central axis power,
the hub of the homeland universe,
by being a charitable incorporation
of all family and community values,
in ideas of selfless, endless service,
that some never let be distinguished
from a kind of servitude and slavery,
whose work character was erased
by an idea of willing, voluntary giving,
a giving-up of all of one's own life,
to bring about the next generation,
half of whom would also be hostage
to a blind reproduction of the same,
each in her own time begatting
mindless spawning reincarnations.

The same study could have said
children suffer psychological damage
when dads move from work to welfare,
or when moms become dependent,
or when any able-bodied person,
possibly a parent, but maybe not,
is deprived of opportunities to work,
is deprived of fair pay and benefits
that they earned, once upon a time.

The once employed suffer more than
those who never were yet employed,
and the underemployed suffer as well.

The proper conclusion about suffering
is that taking money for your work
makes you vulnerable to suffering,
makes your children vulnerable as well,
and that, never having earned any money,
or exchanged your hard work for less,
far less, than it was worth to you,
you could not suffer money deprivation
if you never have it, as a major liability,
in the form of an insecure servile job,
whose loss makes you all too aware
of the ultimate worth of what you gave
and the ultimate market worthlessness
of what you were given in exchange

Money is not worth the effort to earn it,
when it is paid at an unfair wage rate,
based upon the false competition,
the over-stimulated job economy,
which bites the hands that feed it,
by paying back less to those hands
than it costs those hands to go on.

As a classically addictive substance,
which require ever more of themselves,
in ever larger doses of the same,
to achieve the same marginal effect
of temporary nirvanaic euphoria,
followed by crashing and burning,
money ought to be an FDA-banned,
a major anti-social depressant drug,
whose harmful effects are so potent,
that DARE dares not mention them,
because it causes divorce and suicide,
it causes alcoholism and drug abuse,
it causes all social ills, large and small.

Moms, and dads, and children, too,
please hear my warning: avoid money,
and if you are already hooked on it,
seek personal and professional help:
the lives you save could be your own.

Thanks, mom, thanks for listening,
to your son, Donald L Emerick

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