For mortality rate of inner city children at the time, was as high as 74%,died before the age of 5.
A mucher, was someone who robbed drunks and the dead, A peeler was a early policeman, named after their founder, Robert Peel. A Goal, was a Jail, that's how it was spelled at the time.
People could be sentenced to years of hard labour, and sent to Australia simply for stealing a loaf of bread.
Was reading some articles in a news paper a friend sent me and it was speaking about poverty in precise details and that inspired this poem to emerge about how some are physically poor and others are worse off even when they feel not so physically poor as they are spiritually poor. I hope that comes across in my poem.
