<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=423581" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode to Poverty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">poetry in progress</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i have seen poverty<br>climb stairs to make<br>that morning paper <br>available at the top floor</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i have seen poverty <br>climb stairs to sell that <br>wrapped farm chicken <br>quiet and bowed, <br>in a one star hotel</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i have seen poverty light<br>oil lamp in the dead of night<br>with the hope to leap from rags <br>to cosier enclave through<br>pen and ink, alphabets, <br>arab numerals, mind spinning algebras, <br>logarithms, and medical lexicons</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i have seen poverty<br>take men across turbulent seas<br>oceans, to strange lands<br>to make money for home<br>thousands of miles away</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i have seen poverty sweats<br>from dawn till dusk<br>under the tropical sun<br>smoothening highways, <br>coating multi-storey buildings</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i have seen poverty carry<br>a senile Chinese woman on <br>shoulders up a famous hill resort<br>she to admire her honeymoon spot<br>he to put meals on the table<br>for mom and dad, brothers and sisters</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i have seen poverty gulp<br>men and women in the seas, <br>throw them helter skelter <br>in a murderous web of human <br>trafficking and slavery</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i have seen poverty turn<br>graceful beautiful maidens<br>into thin, nerve wracking<br>frames, wrinkles and flesh <br>driven to the edge of existence</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Tiong+Chunghoo">John Tiong Chunghoo</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=423581" data-title="Ode to Poverty de John Tiong Chunghoo" data-description="poetry in progress i have seen poverty climb stairs to make that morning paper available at the top floor i have seen poverty climb stairs to sell that wrapped farm chicken quiet and bowed, in a one star hotel i have seen poverty light oil..."></div> </div> </div>

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