<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=566768" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nouveau Riche</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’d rather be a nouveau riche<br>than some impoverished veteran.<br>I’m looking for a nouveau niche<br>that’s hopefully a better ’un<br>than that which I now occupy, <br>without resources that the rich<br>have, whether old or nouveau––I<br>don’t really think it matters which.<br>Too long I’ve been a nouveau poor.<br>It isn’t fun, you don’t get used<br>to poverty, the only cure<br>that gives my poverty a boost<br>is taking out new credit cards<br>that have a pleasing plastic glow, <br>ignoring all the crass canards<br>I hear from those to whom I owe<br>a fortune. They must know I won’t<br>repay them––can’t when nouveau poor! <br>Repayment cannot be my wont<br>till I have nouveau riche allure<br>to help me keep up with expenses, <br>impoverished by nouveau schemes.<br>Till creditors come to their senses<br>I can’t fulfill my nouveau dreams, <br>a man who, though a nouveau poor, <br>would rather he were nouveau riche, <br>though unrealistic, to be sure, <br>more real than those men who eat quiche.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">12/27/99,3/30/08</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</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=566768" data-title="Nouveau Riche de Gershon Hepner" data-description="I’d rather be a nouveau riche than some impoverished veteran. I’m looking for a nouveau niche that’s hopefully a better ’un than that which I now occupy, without resources that the rich have, whether old or nouveau––I don’t really t..."></div> </div> </div>

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