Thanks to the Capital Area Food Bank for hosting the Poet-in-Residence program, the first-ever such writer's residency to focus on poetry about hunger. Award-winning poet, AaronR of Arlington, VA served as the Poet-in-Residence and wrote the poem, My Name Is Hunger.
Poem by AaronR My Name is Hunger Hello, nice to meet you – my name is Hunger Not just a craving for a particular taste that makes you wonder I’m talking about the one that gives you pain when you slumber The one that has cars packed in both lanes, with people waiting to take a number This pandemic that we’re under? That doesn’t bother me In fact, I’m even more visible due to problems with the economy This has made me increase Children can’t go to school so that’s a few less meals that they can eat Parents are unemployed now so that’s less money they have to make a feast The world is so greedy that they aren’t looking after the needy Everyone is not succeeding Success can be so fleeting We aren’t even talking about the ability to make money; we’re talking about the ability to be eating If lack of food is the problem you sow, then me as Hunger, I’m the one reaping The richest country in the world, so we have the means, but I don’t know what that means? Together Everyone Achieves More, are we no longer a team? It’s 2020 and it still seems That we’re dealing with the same problem that Capital Area Food Bank saw when they started this dream Now that team Gives 30 million meals of food away yearly And it’s still people out here that’s starving dearly 100,000 square foot food distribution site, 450 distribution places, something’s going right Curbside groceries, food banks weekly, daily, even through the night They are doing their job clearly But in the nation’s capital, where there’s lots of capital There’s still children starving- I want the rich people to hear me The poverty people fear me They have all types of needs, high cholesterol, and diabetes, Having food to eat shouldn’t be a privilege but a basic life necessity To stop me, it’s no particular skill to it I’m not sure if people have the will to do it The resources are available I’m in every city everywhere you go If we can make sure that everyone has gloves and a mask around their face There’s no reason we can’t make sure that everyone has food across their plate I’m Hunger, I’m not a matter of what’s wrong or right While some of you are living the good life I’m ready to take over somebody who doesn’t know where their meal is coming from tonight I’m Hunger So stop me or keep watching me Continue to affect millions of people as food becomes an unaffordable luxury This is the video presentation of the poem that AaronR wrote while poet-in-residence at the Capital Area Food Bank: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EWEHy3WSjQKMJqpnK1HKhN1oFtL-Xy-k/view Video by AaronR: https://youtu.be/fG1nAjnHNRs Aaron's Facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/aaronRthepoet4
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Dr. Hiram Larew
9/15/2020 08:58:16 pm
A powerful poem written by AaronR, the Poet in Residence at the Capital Area Food Bank. This is the first-ever residency focused on poetry of hunger sponsored by the CAFB in partnership with Poetry X Hunger. Here's to poetry that speaks back to hunger!!
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