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Sunken Levels<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by Jim Aitken<\/em><\/p>\n It was the first item on the news The loss of life was indeed tragic, as was Less newsworthy was the unnamed boat And less newsworthy the thirty-nine Vietnamese Unlike those in the Titan submersible who were all And those in the submersible had cash to throw away. With a media that worships wealth and despises the poor Yet they say that class is over these days; that it doesn\u2019t Or do we all sink together so that the wealthy can Or do we instead talk of rich and poor all over again and give Sunken Levels by Jim Aitken It was the first item on the newsfor days, the Titan submersibletaking a group to see the Titanic wreck. The loss of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":15387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2776,1740,2777],"class_list":["post-15390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-billionaires","tag-refugees","tag-titan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
for days, the Titan submersible
taking a group to see the Titanic wreck.<\/p>\n
the \u00a3200,000 fee charged to those on board
to view the wreck and never return home alive.<\/p>\n
that sunk in stormy seas off the Grecian coast
with the loss of eighty lives, mainly Pakistanis.<\/p>\n
lives lost, found inside a container lorry. Neither
the Pakistanis or the Vietnamese had names, it seems,<\/p>\n
named. The difference was all to do with wealth,
with class status, for the migrants were simply poor<\/p>\n
It reminded me of Bezos and his rocket into space
thanking his Amazon workers for this unseemly waste.<\/p>\n
both at home and abroad, though especially abroad,
the difference in coverage was class-ridden and predictable.<\/p>\n
matter anymore. Yet, there is no level to which the wealthy
will sink to stay wealthy \u2013 should this not be learned anew?<\/p>\n
continue to be wealthy at the expense of the world\u2019s poor
as the land burns and the sea levels rise to sink even them?<\/p>\n
place for egalitarian dreams to flourish; to challenge the all-
consuming, insatiable appetites of the few and raise the many?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"