After work,
Three am,
Iowa’s still too frosty to sleep in one’s car,
So she puts the car into reverse,
Pulls out of Mercy One’s parking garage,
Homeward bound,
The HR at the Catholic hospital pays this hardworking sixty year old exactly what high school boys get paid on their first job at Micky Dee’s!
Risking life and limb,
No time to seek a place to live,
Three months since her one hundred twenty year old home’s pipes froze in her home without a furnace these nearly three years,
No money to repair,
To damn cold to live there,
No compassion from a hospital who claims it’s Christian,
Tax exempt!
It’s three fourteen am, Pen’s just getting her walker she isn’t allowed to walk with at work in the car,
The gargage like Walmart’s door is always open,
It’s seven above zero right now in that garage in Waterloo Iowa,
Penny has a drive of fourth minutes to get to that motel room that charges $315/week,
Val Whitewolf 