<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368896" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Growing Up Hard</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Counting pennies, to buy a loaf of bread<br>More often than not, hungry going to bed<br>Us carrying mothers sewing machine, every thirty days<br>Three blocks to the pawn shop, till the welfare check pays<br>Got the welfare check, would get the sewing machine out<br>We'd pawn it again next month, without a doubt<br>Living on commodities, free peanut butter and cheese<br>Going to school without a coat we'd always freeze<br>We never had many nice clothes to wear<br>Mother would mend them when they began to tear<br>Having meat for dinner was a real rare thing<br>Breakfast and supper, beans and rice we were eating<br>We wore our shoes until they fell apart<br>Mother could only buy one of us a pair, at the mart<br>Quiet often we were left all by ourselves<br>While mother worked or went out for cocktails<br>The days weren't so bad alone, we were in school<br>But young and left alone at night was really cruel<br>Feeling so alone, just us three<br>Please stay home tonight mama, we'd plea<br>Times were hard when I was a child<br>This poem I've written, is putting it mild</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Donna+Nimmo">Donna Nimmo</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368896" data-title="Growing Up Hard de Donna Nimmo" data-description="Counting pennies, to buy a loaf of bread More often than not, hungry going to bed Us carrying mothers sewing machine, every thirty days Three blocks to the pawn shop, till the welfare check pays Got the welfare check, would get the sewing machine ..."></div> </div> </div>

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