it's sometimes not easy being rich when you go broke...but it's a little easier being broke when you've never been rich...it's all sometimes still a bitch!


bottom of the well

bottom of the well

walking through the Recoleta always depresses me.
for i feel the contrast between rich and poor bear down on me so heavily
and as I walk along
hungry
broke
i see the classy people
eating classy meals
in classy joints
and my hunger and frustrations grow
as I feel my ribs pressed hard against my skin.

i see the pretty ladies walking past me
and another kind of hunger grows,
this hunger too out of my reach
so neither can I satisfy
neither can I afford
it's cheaper to just vanish
or slip into the villas across the tracks
and mingle with the feeble minded,
the intellectually poor
yet I feel like my time is at hand
feel like glory is long overdue
feel like it's time I reap the seeds of genius I have sown
time to do away with the mediocre budget
my constant feeling of nutritional abandonment,
I'm feeling like the dawn of a new day is before me,
now
as gloom seems to want to swallow me up
and spit me out
into the same tomorrow.




Poetry by paul perry
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Written on 2010-02-08 at 18:27

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