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104<br />

Agriculture<br />

Though easier vocations exist<br />

Everyone may farm<br />

Farmers lynch‐pin the world<br />

Supporting society’s invalids<br />

Only farmer’s truly live<br />

Everybody else sycophantic<br />

Self sufficiency never begs<br />

Nor refuses beggars<br />

Patriotic farmers stockpile supplies<br />

Supporting conquering Kings<br />

When farmers fold arms<br />

Even ascetics starve<br />

Drying by one fourth<br />

Prepares abundant fields<br />

As manure surpasses ploughing<br />

Observance outweighs weeding<br />

Compare negligent farmers’ fields<br />

With sulking women<br />

When idleness pleads poverty<br />

Mother Earth amused<br />

105<br />

Poverty<br />

Beneath every cringing poverty<br />

Lurks absolute impoverishment<br />

Present & future blisses<br />

Nemesis poverty deprives<br />

Dignified lineage & speech<br />

Craving raglife destroys<br />

Destitution induces improper speech<br />

Even noble born<br />

Miserable povertyʹs drags behind<br />

Many more miseries<br />

Words of intelligent paupers<br />

Drowned by disrespect<br />

Those absolute poverty afflicted<br />

Disowned by mothers<br />

Poorness that wounded yesterday<br />

May kill today<br />

Sleeping possible amidst flames<br />

But never poverty<br />

As raglives desperately survive<br />

Neighborhood larders drain

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