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Enchanted Money

N1,000.00 for a mad beggar; The rare spectacle would make you stagger: Nation’s Top Bank Note on palms of pure dirt! I had to yield to Strongest Suspicion And out fish Giver’s Concealed Decision; A need to criminalize Donors Or they don’t taste what resembles honors: Prayers for The Truly Charitable While citing Pious Men: Veritable… “This might be just Enchanted Money, Whose taker would not at all find funny; instant withdrawal of releasing hand making The Very Giving less grand; The Mad to be Twenty Thousand Times so, The Sane fully cease to sensibly flow: Receiver inheriting Givers Woes, Start absorbing ill-Luck and its sad blows. One should not in Life try to Charity With Propriety place on parity: Indeed, Begging is a risky venture: A Boxer staking some tooth or denture.

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