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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
1:00: Joe tells of his cleaning lady, Dolores, an immigrant from El | |||
Salvador. Stuff disappears, but Joe doesn't know whether he's lost | |||
them or she's stolen them. She breaks appliances, one almost every | |||
visit. But without her, Joe's home descends into chaos. He fires | |||
her. | |||
5:00: Joe tells of his aunt, a widow, who married a fellow who had | |||
been a traveling salesman before being drafted. The family business | |||
takes him in, but he does nothing at work. She gets mad at him, but | |||
won't endure a divorce, so lives in a rage with him. He enlists in | |||
the army for the Korean War, dies in the invasion of Inchon.<ref>Joe's | |||
stepfather had been a traveling salesman before being drafted; married | |||
Joe's mother after his discharge, performed unsatisfactorily at work. | |||
Joe's mother was mad with him but didn't want a divorce. Neither of | |||
Joe's uncles fits this description.</ref>` | |||
9:30: Joe describes a YouTube video of a man serving an elegant meal | |||
to 2 homeless people, then another in which the same man identifies | |||
himself as a police colonel, has meals delivered to a group of | |||
homeless people in front of a restaurant, claiming they are undercover | |||
officers. | |||
11:30: Joe describes a TV show depicting people living in wretched | |||
conditions. | |||
12:20:<blockquote>'We thank thee, O Lord, God, King of the Universe, | |||
who brought us out of Egypt and into Auschwitz. Let your arteries not | |||
be hardened against us, and let your heart not attack | |||
us.'</blockquote> | |||
12:30: Joe, sounding as though he's talking to someone on the | |||
phone, describes the pleasant day he's had. | |||
13:30: Joe recounts a scene at the Bagel Chateau. A shabby | |||
Black man tries to steal a purse. The manager throws him out. He | |||
abreacts. | |||
15:40: Joe recounts standing in line at a bank. One teller is | |||
taking a lot of time to handle the transactions of an Arab. The Arab | |||
and a redneck exchange heated words. The manager diverts the Arab to | |||
a desk where a bank officer handles his transactions. | |||
16:30: Joe's standing on the side of a highway. A guy with | |||
long blond hair, scars on the backs of his hands, wearing a white robe | |||
picks him up. Joe recognizes him as someone he went to school with, | |||
who died in a construction accident after high school, whose body | |||
disappeared 2 days later. | |||
17:20: <blockquote>'If Jesus had been beheaded, would Christians wear | |||
small guillotines around their necks? If Jesus had been hanged, would | |||
they wear braided ropes with nooses? If Jesus had been electrocuted, | |||
would Christians wear little chairs with straps on them? And if Jesus | |||
had been executed by firing squad, would Christians wear little | |||
pendants of Jesus sitting on a chair against a wall, smoking a last | |||
cigarette?'</blockquote> | |||
18:20: Joe gives an updated account of Job's story. | |||
24:50: 'Infinite eyes' (Keb Mo) | |||
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;"> | |||
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> | |||
How can one maintain a sense of meaning and faith in a world of natural catastrophe, cruelty and moral failure? The Poor Are Always with Us fails to answer this question in its own unique way. | How can one maintain a sense of meaning and faith in a world of natural catastrophe, cruelty and moral failure? The Poor Are Always with Us fails to answer this question in its own unique way. | ||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Shining Through (Layo - Bushwacka!)}} [Intro] | {{Shining Through (Layo - Bushwacka!)}} [Intro] | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
* [https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional/joe-frank-the-poor-are-always-with-us "The Poor Are Always With Us" streaming audio at KCRW] | * [https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional/joe-frank-the-poor-are-always-with-us "The Poor Are Always With Us" streaming audio at KCRW] | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | [[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | ||