Issues and Problems - Vancouver 2007 - Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet

Vancouver 2007

The filthy streets and hidden alley ways,
of Vancouver’s Downtown east side,
where despair and confusion is spread wide,
has been the city’s underbelly for how many days?
Lawlessness and poverty has put the area to decay,
what’s in it for the city to improve its sight,
but alas! in 2010 the Vancouver Olympics proves all of the city’s mighty might,
crackdowns… need not be the only way.
Stopping public protests and preventing civil disobedience,
is not the solution,
but instead the city’s needed cooperation, the people refuse.
Only with plenty of effort, empathy, and patience,
will the city put social and employment programs into adaptation,
and put the tax dollars to better use.

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