"Debris"
 

They lie like lazy litter at our feet

Needles arms and vacant sounding speech

Feeling neither rain nor cold nor sleet

In a world beyond our normal reach.

 

Useless slime - it is so often said

"Put them down!" or hide them far away

Is it that we're just a bit afraid

We could end like that, some future day?

 

We do not know just how to give them aid

If money given will only pay the fee

That to some filthy dealer will be paid.

Must we all say goodbye to charity?

 

These useless hulks that fill us all with shame

Are ever on our conscience here to see

Everyone's a person just the same

Some mother's son or daughter, just like me.

 

by William Ashton

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