Money is a tinpot god, it rules the lives of many,
and yet the world is full of those who really haven't any.
The Japanese tsunami left chaos in its wake.
Now homeless, jobless people have hearts near fit to break;
many still owe mortgages on houses that are gone.
How will they buy another? What is to be done?
It's money rules, not common sense
when people have to live in tents
and know their old life's washed away...
Yet they survive another day...

© Jinksy

Tsunami aftermath in Japan
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Jinksy blogs as Napple Notes and Alias Jinksy. 

The old lady sat among the destruction,
on page three of the magazine,
rocking herself.
I leafed thru the rest of the magazine,
her image is all I see.

© Douglas Polk

The Calamity of Japan's 9.0-Magnitude Quake
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Douglas Polk is a writer of poetry, from central Nebraska. Feeling persecuted most of his life he has published three books of poetry; In My Defense, The Defense Rests, and On Appeal. He lives with his wife and two boys and two dogs on the plains of Nebraska.

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Explosion at Japan nuclear plant