Wait! Selling beds is
Ignoble? Comfort has costs.
Sleep well child of God!
- Gary Edward Geraci
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Author:
Gary Edward Geraci (
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- Comment from author about the poem: The manufacturing, selling, and delivery of beds is a good thing; as is all noble work. - Way Fair is a political, 5-7-5 haiku and was written in response to the Wayfair employee walk-out during June of 2019. A large group of employees walked off duty when they learned that their employer had made a large bed sale to the US Government and that the shipment was destined to arrive at a US Detention Center holding migrants, refugees and non-citizens - many if not most whom had broken US immigration laws. The plight of this group of employees was picked up by the media, especially their insistence that these beds were going to be delivered to “concentration camps.” “Way-Fair” is a play on the employer’s name and is used in this sense to emphasize a degree of fairness, in this case, a standard of care over and above the standard of care one might find in other countries and in similar circumstances. “Comfort has costs” can have several meanings. The most obvious one being that here in the USA we treat detainees with a certain degree of dignity - honoring the image of God that is in every person, lawbreaker or not - and we do our best, even when our facilities have become overwhelmed, to provide for their basic needs - far from the inhumane, murderous, spectacle and horror run by Nazi, Germany concentration camps. “Comfort has costs” may also remind us of the great sacrifices men and women have made over the ages to protect the constitutional freedoms that we comfortably enjoy here in the USA today. We welcome all - all whom are willing to legally enter, assimilate to our laws and culture, and then as legal citizens, to protect those very constitutional freedoms; of which for me, the highest are our religious liberties.
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Comments1
Nice write Gary.
Thank you Orchidee!
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