The Absence Of Care

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Dennis Ryan

Wellsville, New York

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Wellsville, New York

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Friday morning, June 3,2005,8: 30 am

Care absences itself the more careful we become: we stop,
look both ways, consider our self-interest then walk the other way,
more careful, more afraid than before. We care excessively for ourselves;
and we fear the terrible things that co-exist with our selfish cares.

Dennis Ryan

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Topic(s) of this poem: care,selfish ,social behaviour,social comment

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The absence of care in modern society is prevalent, and just one symptom of a "culture of narcissism" that the social historian Christopher Lasch has written extensively about as regards the state of The United States.

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