<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414323" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Object Lesson</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nobody cares, nobody dares. <br>Show sympathy to such as me.<br>I’m just a bum, an unwelcome<br> reminder that you too may com.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to know the depths of misery. <br>Although you do not want to see, <br>avert your eyes as you pass by.<br>You can ignore my plaintive cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I too was rich and would not see<br>that bums deserved some sympathy.<br>But fate stepped in and fate taught me. <br>Disaster can strike suddenly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reducing men to penury.<br>From great success to poverty.<br>Remember this it could be you<br> here begging for a buck or two.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just pocket change you can well spare<br> Can make my life easier to bear<br> I’m still a man who needs to eat<br> although I’m living on the street.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You can pass by disdainfully <br>I learnt my lesson painfully<br> and so in time my friend could you<br>in the same way that I had to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would much rather earn my way<br>But fate took all I had away.<br>She sprang it on me by surprise<br> perhaps in order to chastise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">me for my inability.<br> To show a little charity.<br> to those who had much less than me<br>I suffered enforced bankruptcy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I’m not the bum you choose to see.<br>Today you can look down on me <br>in the same way I chose to do.<br>when I was as blind as you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">14-Nov-08</div><div style="margin:10px 0">http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=414323" data-title="Object Lesson de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Nobody cares, nobody dares. Show sympathy to such as me. I’m just a bum, an unwelcome reminder that you too may com. to know the depths of misery. Although you do not want to see, avert your eyes as you pass by. You can ignore my plaintive ..."></div> </div> </div>

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