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Poverty Is Big Business


Poverty is big business
is my guess.

Otherwise, why would the world
remain a poverty-stricken mess?

I heard a story on NPR say
that people from around the world
are making $13 a day,
in Iraq.

How poor must a person be
to wash pots and pans,
clean, and cook in Iraq's misery.

How can private corporations,
profiting from the war,
feel good about that.

I find the slogan "We pay them more
than they can make back home"
weak at the very best.

Only death will give these poor souls
a much needed rest.







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