Below the Working Class
Greatest is the servant’s slave to the pope
the good looking still carries a dry throat
such living is washed with a costly soap
to break a jinx right from ancestral coat
value’s attached to every mess and rag
people of this class just live and manage
a rare light may shine but will face the lag
progress so dragged despite all courage
in wealth’s province, they are total outcasts
ride the train of existence with no seat
in another side the world runs so fast
as the weak attend poverty’s retreat
life has distinguished with its shovel
but the low still has something to marvel.
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