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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

“We can’t take care of everyone.” #poem #poetry

A poem entitled “Everyone”

Everyone
by Kathryn Hyde

“We can’t take care of Everyone.”
I’m paraphrasing. That’s not what he said.
“It’s not possible to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all of the individual things.”
So, I was wrong. It’s not Everyone.
It’s specific people.
It’s the children;
It’s the poor;
It’s the elderly.
They’re the ones.
We can’t take care of them.
We can’t take care of Everyone.

If I scroll back,
there’s a woman,
staring out a window,
hair floating in zero gravity.
She’s looking at the world.
The whole world.
Everyone.
Surely there are people looking back.
Surely, some.
At least Someone.
If she wanted, she could block out the whole world with her palm pressed flat on that pane of glass. Everyone.

“We’re fighting wars.”
That’s his reason.
Not against Everyone.
It’s specific people.
They’re the ones.
We’re taking care of them.
So, we can’t take care of Everyone.
We’re fighting wars.

Actually, I misspoke earlier.
She’s not in zero gravity.
It doesn’t exist.
No matter how far we travel, we are subject to the pull of every other object. It’s inescapable. As far as we can go, could go, will go, we will always be tugged.
All matter exerts gravity.
The moon,
the sun,
the Earth,
every rock,
every tree,
every bird,
every person,
Everyone.

This poem is unfolding in a pattern I have to abandon. His words should go right here,

but all I can focus on is the image of that fiery hot capsule in a terrifying plummet back toward Earth. Streaking downward until three parachutes mercifully open, just before splashdown.
Back to us, to Everyone.

exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Tapper? Tapper?

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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Don Jr, Kushner, Thiel, & Vance meeting to decide how to divvy up South America

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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

According to this chart, China just lowered tariffs

exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

You’ll be visited by three spirits…

In order of appearance: M. Jordan, M. Jackson, and M. Culkin

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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Rosie even more formidable in person

Rosie the Riveter by Norman Rockwell