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Necessity


My necesssity changes in the eyes of the totured. 

Different circumstances changes your necessities due to misfortune 

You think what you need is important 

Look other than the mirror it can get clearer

Or to Ghana to see the drought 

Or to my neighborhood and leave with an uncloseable mouth 

What if cancer was to succumb to your spouse ? 

Or if the only thing you needed was Clout ? 

Your necessities wouldn't be as far south 

If you knew what real necessities were all about. 

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