‘Let Them Steal Cake’

By Joni Halpern When I was a kid Know what I did? I stole things. Things like penny candy, cookies cake and ice cream. My mom would get angry. My dad would yell and scream. But I would get hungry. So when I was a kid, know what I did? I stole things. ---Olen Purnell, 1976 When I was a kid, there were no food stamps. My dad was a working man, a carpenter who worked six days a week, but still could…