I don't want to bombard the page, but this is something I had to deal with today.


She Takes Advantage

She takes advantage
Five kids still at home
The oldest, 16
Has a bun of her own.

Three thousand dollars
in food stamps each month
She sells them for cash
to refill her drug stash
The man she has now,
not the father of them all
stays at home all day long
smoking weed from his bong.
He may get a job
but it lasts only a week
Then he complains
of his tired, sore feet.

She finds old people
to take advantage of
Bringing all her kids over
to bring them big love
She's as sneaky
as sneaky can be
She sorts thru their bills
to see what she can see
She takes little things
that first go unnoticed
Because in her mind
The elderly aren't focused

Lucky for my cousin
My cousin has me
I saw in an instant
this woman was a thief
We went to the bank
put a stop to her card
To prevent more theft
that was up to 500 so far.

She better be glad
it's not up to me
I'd do more than just jail
and throw away the key
Trust and believe
it's a good thing
it's not up to me



Poetry by LacyxDevine
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Written on 2022-02-04 at 00:09

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Griffonner The PoetBay support member heart!
Another one here who has seen this thieving mindset at work, as, a 'careworker' pilfered my mother's purse every time she visited her. It is a shocking disgrace to all of our societies that this sort of thing happens; that people can sink so low as to take advantage of the old and frail. Bravo for calling it out.
To my mind it is the result of bad apples 'at the top'!
But then look at what Lawrence Beck's poem 'Another Day' (today) which perhaps shows another 'lofty' example of how people get their boundaries blurred by those in power.

OH, by the way, I did say I loved your poem didn't I? ;)
2022-02-04


Alan J Ripley The PoetBay support member heart!
Morning Lacyx. From cold old Eastbourne
Loved this poem, There are many scammers out there
This I feel is one of the worst. More often
They get away with It. I've seen and adviced many
Of my customers over my working career.
2022-02-04