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Created on: December 26, 2008 Last Updated: December 31, 2011
their Swollen stomachs from the pain of hunger
our stomach swollen from the rich pain of greed
their skin so thin like transparent coloured glass
ours soft and sretched like a deep sweaty swamp
our bellies that swell past the last hole of belt
their bones stick through like Antarctic icebergs
our drunken escapes from our so troubled ways
their mixed up drunken minds from pain and disease
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Poetry: Greed
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then will soon,
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shine upon
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