Issue 11.1 Fall 2015

11.1 cover image

 

 

Hope and Honesty

 

John Perkins

 

 

Hope is a child clinging to its dead mother.
Honesty is when it starts to eat.

 

Someone died today.
Someone else noticed how.
And someone else adjusted a spreadsheet.

 

Hope is "maybe they won't hurt me today. "
Honesty is a knife in the dark.

 

Someone lost their life's work today.
Someone else knew better than to have one.
And someone else wondered why their house wouldn't sell.

 

Hope is "I don't think they saw me."

Honesty is no one left alive.

Hope is believing in other people.

 

Honesty is knowing that every person is a universe.
And universes aren't known to care.

 

 

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