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Nora Is Getting Poorer

I feel for next-house Nora
Getting poorer and poorer:
A plant facing stem borer
While she seems a goal scorer 
Her idle hours rarer 
State of things not fairer...

Nora's younger: Victoria
Is doing well in Pretoria
And her cousin Eugenia
Sure to become engineer ;
In South Africa clever
And there could live forever
No causeless xenophobia
When with host shares her beer...

I feel for striving Nora 
Refused loan by rich Dora
Who drives the cleanest Bora 
And exudes sparkling aura.

Sorry we say to Nora 
Sleeping lightly; no snorer.

Copyright © Chinedum Ekwobi

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