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March of the Dispossessed
He walked out of the job centre through a group of youths. What a joke! All the qualifications and experience in the world couldn’t get you employed these days. He’d been searching for six months and not even a reply.
The crowd was a regular sight around the centre. People huddled there in the cold waiting to see their employment advisors. Some of them were half-starved, barely keeping their head above water. Others had just left school. They all had the same look in their eyes. That `the economy’s gone to hell; I won’t be getting paid anytime soon.’ look.
My entry for this months writing prompt at: Velvet Verbosity
Click here to read my poem of the same title: March of the Dispossessed
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the photo makes this post even more poignant. Thanks for sharing this piece with us.
Thanks very much. 🙂
If not for the photo, this could almost be today… still very relevant. Nice job.
Thanks, I was struggling to find a relevant pic for this one but I’m glad you liked it. x
It’s appropriate time to make some plans for the future and it is time to be happy. I have read this post and if I could I want to suggest you few interesting things or advice. Perhaps you could write next articles referring to this article. I want to read even more things about it!
Thanks very much. x
I have been thinking a lot about the echos of my grandparents’ youth these days. I think it would be daunting to be 20 … but there are always opportunities … for the brave/fearless …
Perfect use of the word starved, and food for thought.
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The juxtaposition of the photo and the current situation was well-played. I’m not sure if you were meaning to write about the past or the present, but for me it is so utterly relevant in the present that that’s how I read it.
Thanks very much. It is about the present and the situation I currenlty see in my home town but the photo seemed to have more character than anything else that came up in my image searches. 🙂
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