The Hell We Live With

By Joe LaCommare

The hell we live with is a collection of poems detailing the inevitable hardships that are woven into the tapestries of our everyday lives. The ones we struggle not to see, hide from others, and yet are as ever present as the mailman who delivers the daily news. This isn't about avoiding these issues. This is about living with the hellish hardsh

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joseph LaCommare
• Release date: Oct 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781087991191

Joe LaCommare

The hell we live with is a collection of poems detailing the inevitable hardships that are woven into the tapestries of our everyday lives. The ones we struggle not to see, hide from others, and yet are as ever present as the mailman delivering the daily news. This isn't about avoiding these issues. This is about living with the hellish hardships and the daily aches and pains that seamlessly coexist with the good. Walking towards rather than running from these truths. Learning how to live more effectively and respectably with problems. And its about learning to find resources within yourself that you didn't think possible, amid the daily happenings, hidden even from yourself.

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I walk down the winding path. The pavement has cracks in it from roots of the trees on either side that provide needed shade on a hot day. The path serves its purpose. Please, do not fix it. I like the feeling of my feet walking along the cracks.

As I walk, the houses line the path and I think to myself of the families that thought to themselves how lovely to be living near a walking path; only to never sit outside. Their fences are swaying with the wind.

Please, do not fix them. It reminds me how these families have lived here a long time and are in need of proper respect. It makes me feel safe.

As I walk, I smell the