<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569364" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poverty is not a Calling</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poverty is not a calling, <br>Even if the priests think it is.<br>Poverty is a distraction, <br>The intellectual must think it so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Think of the books you could have bought<br>Had you had money, <br>Or the food you may have eaten<br>In a posh hotel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You soak garri in water<br>And wipe your mouth, <br>Then put on a fine shirt<br>So no one will know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are a lie - you know you want more; <br>Chicken dipped in sauce<br>And maybe some wine too, <br>But you cannot afford it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are ill<br>And so run to the chemist; <br>No doctor for you, <br>A card is three hundred naira.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pain killers, multivitamins and blood capsules, <br>You will still have change; <br>Why then bother with the syringe<br>Or the bespectacled grave face? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You see? <br>Poverty denies you the good life; <br>You cannot do what<br>Your seeming betters do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You discover it is a sad state, <br>Poverty is not a calling; <br>We both know that, <br>Even if we pretend not to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samuel+Nze">Samuel Nze</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=569364" data-title="Poverty is not a Calling de Samuel Nze" data-description="Poverty is not a calling, Even if the priests think it is. Poverty is a distraction, The intellectual must think it so. Think of the books you could have bought Had you had money, Or the food you may have eaten In a posh hotel. You soak garri..."></div> </div> </div>

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