Calling a Thing what it is: Lenten journey overcoming economic oppression-A Sermon

The tent cities,

That embarrassment hidden away,

On Wacker Drive,

And along our expressways

Huddled underneath viaducts

In a city which claims the moniker of being,

World class

But treats anyone that does not adhere to

An upper middle-class mentality

As trash

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The men tattered,

At 55th and the Dan Ryan

Begging for the things

That we take for granted

Waiting for an opportunity,

To quench the hunger that is always constant

Asking for permanent solutions to escape the darkness

That they are trapped in

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Students,

That are not a part of the status quo,