Stop Being Poor
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Stop being poor
How?
Magic?
You’re assuming we got here because we’re
Lazy
Unemployed
Uneducated
Well news flash we’re not
Stop being poor
Single mothers on welfare
Alcoholic prostitute
Fat, lazy,
No!
They get up every morning at 5 AM
Take their kids to school
Go to work, gets paid minimum wage
And won’t get home till as late as 9 pm
Stop being poor
Get rid of food stamps
Let the children of America live a life
Wondering when they’ll eat a real dinner
They already get stamps on their hands after they buy cafeteria food that shout
“my family doesn’t have money”
Giving the bullies just another reason to throw them on the ground and make them bleed
Stop being poor
The people in poverty they’re everywhere
On the bus
Next Street down from your house
In your classes
Standing in front of you speaking into this microphone
I speak for myself, my family, our peers, our community, and 44.3% of the united states of America.
You want me to stop being poor
I can’t.