The Poor

I know why the poor seem so greedy. You would be too if you saw a windfall coming your way that could keep you afloat, fill your sails for a month, a week, a day, an hour... Ethics has nothing to do with it. The poor understands, "You do not have because you do not ask," and when the Gentile woman begs for the crumbs of children for the dogs. Yes, you can turn your heart cold and blame drugs, alcohol, abuse, insanity, ignorance, neglect... In the past couple of years, some of us have gone to that line, some of us below that line, but I doubt we stay and live under that line. We were not conquered. We did not let ourselves be defeated because we knew what victory tasted like. The poor are defeated, broken, hopeless, oppressed... Some how, we have created systems to keep them in place by destroying schools, denying funds, leaving it to the government and then crying for tax breaks, moving to the suburbs, turning our eyes... We no longer invest in life, we hide from death.

I know why the poor seem so greedy...

They learn from the rich.

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