This is excellent. You've taken a huge subject and described it so well in a small space while keeping your form and rhyme. The feelings you showed in this remind me of how it is to have mental illness (my brother was schizophrenic) and someone with a chronic pain condition as I have could also relate to the feelings of wanting to just be like everyone else. My own quest for that has caused me no end of injuries when I pushed myself too far. Great poem.
Using Calgary as a backdrop the author satirizes the self-serving nature of the public as it continues to fatten itself, not only physically, but egotistically as well.
Dear readers, this is my third book of poems, and inside are a special collection of what have turned out to be not only MY personal favorites, but also the favorites of many of YOU. Some of these have never been available in print before...
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and very distressing for the victim
and for loved ones.
John