Wednesday, 14 April 2010

An inconvenient truth

child labourYou ask why this boy sews? Because without his pennies, the family hungers. You in the West  with your Empires, struggled over lifetimes to stop children working in the factory as they once did on the land. Why ask us to be better then you, with what you left us?

Random Word: Convenience


1 comment:

  1. Really like your statement. I'm wondering with the turn of economy how long we will sit in out crystal palaces that are starting to crumble.

    Thanks for the visit as well -
    your statement reminded me of the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland
    "I late I'm late for a very important date..."

    Moondustwriter

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Welcome and thanks for dropping in. I'll pop by yours by and by.

This blog was inspired by First 50 words where you freewrite from a single word prompt. I use random words or images to create flash fiction in formats ranging from twitter postcards to short short stories.