Walking With A Cane

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Walking With A Cane

By

Michael F. Kallon

Walking With A Cane tells only a portion of the tragic pandemonium and trauma when the mayor of New York abruptly stopped the poor from getting food stamps. The poor were cut-off from food stamps and were dispatched to what he called “workfare program.” This gave birth to the largest number of untrained sanitation workers in the history of the city.

The abrupt action on the part of the mayor, gave birth to crowds of the poor and some sick men and women of all ages, even welfare moms, and their infants in strollers, and the homeless, to parade all the food stamps agencies in the boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan just to sign-up for food stamps. They were paraded even during the inclement weather a technique uniquely invented by the Human Resources Administration in New York City, just to deny the poor food stamps seekers - food. The poor, sick, old, and young, had to accept such inhuman and tragic consequences in their lives since they had no where to turn to but the same city administration that tried to deny them food.

The city’s innocent social workers and other food stamps clerks were at the front lines of this food stamps war. They were targeted by the hungry and the poor food stamps seekers who surged in large numbers in the food stamps agencies, and waylaid their social workers, and food stamps clerks, and blaming them for making things so difficult for them to get their food stamps, and medical assistance.

Zombo the main character in the book is the author himself. He was injured through spinal injury by a hospital in Queens County, New York City, and a genuinely sick man. He found himself in that critical situation fighting for food to survive in New York City. It was the trauma he was put through that ignited his senses to write this book about the events that took place at that time.

The situation became more arduous when the Human Resources Administration in New York City invented special clinics in Manhattan where doctors determined if the poor were sick, sent to work, or be qualified for food stamps. The unfortunate situation that existed was that, these doctors sided with the harsh policies of New York City’s Human Resources Administration.  Although most of the patients that went to the clinics were genuinely sick, and admitted in top-notch hospitals in New York City, these doctors wrote reports that only forced these sick patient to go to work, or denied food stamps. Reopening such food stamps cases was possible through Divine intervention, or through fair-hearing conferences held in the food stamps kangaroo courtrooms held in the Human Resources Administration’s offices in Manhattan. The judges were able to overturn the doctor’s baseless decisions by looking though the patient’s medical records enabling them to qualify for food stamps. This was how New York City wasted the city’s funds.

The society the poor lived in was called the “BIG APPLE,” which meant, where millions of dollars are kept in huge vaults in banks, only to smile at the abject poverty of their own poor in New York City.

Things didn’t go too well this time in the city. Some members of the minority groups were sodomized, shot, and killed by New York City’s finest, as the police were called. The hungry and angry homeless men, and women, the poor, and hungry food stamps seekers pushed the innocent New York City’s commuters off the railings to their deaths in front of incoming subway trains. The cab drivers were secretly murdered in large numbers in New York City. Some well armed, and hungry homeless men, and women left and stayed behind bushes, and under bridges, where they hated the civilization they left behind them, and challenged anyone to come to the