January 29th Poetry Club Meeting @ 7 West

The January 29th 2015 Poetry Club Meeting will take place at:

7 West
Located at 7 Charles West, just off Yonge Street, south of Yonge and Bloor, 7 West is a mixture of restaurant, cafe and pub - so you can have beer, wine, tea, coffee, cake, pie, a hamburger or anything else that is on the menu.

We will be meeting on the 3rd floor.

Time
7 PM

Please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/torontopoetryclub/events/218044192/

The decor and the food/drinks/service at 7 West are all excellent so we are certain to have a good time eating, drinking and spilling forth poetry.

Hope to see you there!

Killer Economy

We live in an era of fascist capitalism
Stock brokers with killer instincts
Politicians in on the grand Ponzi Scheme
Wars for oil, consumption and waste
An indebted populace enslaved
Capitalists running amok looking for the bottom line
The problem is when people can't pay their debts
They start reneging on their loans and mortgages
And then the economy falls apart
This is a model that can't stand the test of time
We can try and extort wealth from other nations
But wars are expensive and its only profitable on paper
In reality we lose way more in practice
The politicians keep saying wealth will trickle down
But such a hoax will never happen
The system is set up so the rich get richer
The poor get poorer, and the middle class dwindles
Eventually all that will remain is the rich and the poor
The poor will try to rise up, but the police will beat them down
Oh wait, this is already happening
You would have to be blind not to see it
Our materialism has become our own downfall
And death has become a vital part of our economy



Charles Moffat's poetry is also available on Kobo: a dream of unfettered roses

Raw Vegan Restaurant sponsors the Toronto Poetry Club

The Toronto raw vegan restaurant Rawlicious, located in the Vegan Village (Roncesvalles/High Park North area) is sponsoring the Toronto Poetry Club.

The reasoning is likely because vegans like poetry, and poets are statistically more likely to be vegans. So huzzah for the vegan poets out there in Toronto!

Maybe some day in the future we will even host a Toronto Poetry Club event at Rawlicious.

And because this post would be lonely without some poetry, here is some poetry graphics to help provoke some thought.