IsPoverty?(什么是贫穷?)
Is Poverty?(什么是贫穷?)
Is Poverty?
You ask me what is poverty?Listen to me. Here I am
dirty,smelly, and with no "proper" under-
wear on and with the stench of my rotting teeth near you. I
will tell you. Listen to me. Listen without pity. I cannot use your
pity. Listen with understanding. Put yourself in my dirty, worn-out, ill-fitting shoes, and hear me.
Poverty is getting up every morning from a dirty and illness-stained mattress. The sheets have long since been used for
diapers. Poverty is living in a smell that never is a smell
of urine, sour milk, and spoiling food sometimes joined with the
strong smell of long-cooked onions. Onions are cheap. If you
have smelled this smell, you did not know how it came. It is the
smell of the outdoor privy. It is the smell of young children who
cannot walk the long dark way in the night. It is the smell of the
mattresses where years of "accidents" have happened. It is the
smell of the milk which has gone sour because the refrigerator
long has not worked, and it costs money to get it fixed. It is the
smell of rotting garbage. I could bury it, but where is the shovel?
Shovels cost money.
Poverty is looking into a black future. Your children won't
play with my boys. They will turn to other boys who steal to get
what they want. I can already see them behind the bars of their
prison instead of behind the bars of my they will turn
to the freedom of alcohol or drugs, and find themselves enslaved.
And my daughter? At best, there is for her a life like mine.
Poverty is an acid that drips on pride until all pride is worn
away. Poverty is a chisel that chips on honor until honor is worn
away. Some of you say that you would do something in my
situation, and maybe you would, for the first week or the first
month, but
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