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TITLE: The Years We Would Forget | Previous Challenge Entry
By Carol Penhorwood
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Those troubled years
Of fear and want
When jobs were few
And pockets light
One in four
Unemployed
Waves of suicide common
Hope died
Savings lost
Banks closed doors
200,000 homes foreclosed
Husbands simply ran away
Despondent and afraid
The women and the children worked
In factories, farms, and mines
Education left behind
To feed the pangs of hunger
Two and half million children
From age ten to eighteen
Working menial jobs
For beggar's pay
Families separated
Children farmed out
“Box car children” rode the rails
For a better future
Three or four families crowded
In one room shacks
Eating weeds
Others living in caves
Or sewer pipes
Many lived in “Hoosiervilles” (shanties)
Subsisting on “Hoover Stew” (food kitchens)
Wrapped in “Hoover Blankets” (newspapers)
Eating “Hoover Hogs” (jackrabbits)
Riding in “Hoover Wagons” ( broken cars pulled by mules)
Black Tuesday changed the world
The Great Depression birthed
Security gone forever
With loss eternally etched in souls.
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