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Knocking on the Government’s Door

Je’free

Gus is a 25 year-old father
of 6 sickly children,
his liability that contoured
creases on his forehead,
adding 2 decades to his age

He wore a persistent
lethargic expression, and
malnourished legs
that framed the same old
hand-me-down, dilapidated
trousers every morning

Nothing else geared him,
but that pushiness of poverty,
to pouch a piece of cabbage
from the wet market, secretly;
and, nourish an expectant
famished family

In some days,
when his mission fails,
he goes home with discontent
to a rubbish plague-ridden hut
of no bedroom, no bathroom;
but a ravenous brood
whose only alternative is to wait
until Gus gets luckier,
maybe tomorrow;
But, for now,
each day is as bleak
as their sparkless future

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