Who Will Survive The Status Quo? Poem by Terence George Craddock

status quo prime places in the pecking order,
versus hard to decide if being shouting at is worse,
or hearing about you degrading whispering curse,

hierarchy legal status quo status
versus shuffle stacked deck places
in the feed first pecking order,
versus scrap famine feed last
discounting ignored those not fed

absolute social authority empowerment
versus discarded powerless disempowered
dictates have more take it all dominant
versus destitute penniless impoverished

helping suffering poor as a church mouse
versus failed mortgage take car take house
being poverty-stricken impaled bankrupt is no fun
underprivileged stony broke skint has no place to run
suffering damaging inability to keep body soul above water
perhaps becomes homeless sleep on street soiled fodder

shamed broken no power control over your life
shamed broken no power to change zero anything
hard to decide if whispering or shouting is worse