Signs of Poverty

~ Gottfried

If your phone has an FM Radio on it, you just know it’s not a smart phone, like its owner. If you’re part of team “send me my photos” causing stress to people at every function. When others were buying a phone, you bought a torch. If you buy daily data bundles, how do you even convince someone that you have future plans?

If you can’t walk behind the sofa in your living room because it’s placed side by side with the wall. When you’re staying in a place that when someone offers to drop you off, there’s a spot they leave you so you can continue home on foot. Because the geography is against them fulfilling their act of kindness.

If you go to a restaurant and the price determines what you will eat as opposed to what you’re craving. If you catch yourself sleeping again, just laugh at yourself. If you cook from the veranda because there’s no space for a kitchen in your apartment. If you wait to eat the piece of meat last at the end of the meal, it just shows you’re not used to it.

If you lock your car and pull the handle to check if it’s really locked. First of all, you have trust issues. You don’t trust the car, you don’t trust the key and worst still, you don’t trust your insurance cover. If you turn off your engine while the car is at the top of the hill. If you wind down the windows and turn off the air conditioning of your car. Choosing heat involuntarily.

If you’re paranoid. Every time you think someone is trying to come rob you. You’re not conscious, you just have little. If you wake up before your alarm. What kind of poverty wouldn’t let you sleep? If you can’t get off your bed from both sides. If your bedroom light has no bedside switch. You switch off the light and then run blindly to your bed.

On Valentine’s eve, while others are shopping for presents, you’re at home composing a poem. You’re not romantic, you’re just managing scarcity. If you think you’re eating his money. You’re not, he feels sorry for you. You’re his poverty alleviation scheme. If you work between the Christmas and new year holiday. Working hard wouldn’t help you. Further your studies.

Can you see the signs?

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78 thoughts on “Signs of Poverty”

  1. SMiLes Mr Gottfried Most Everyday i
    Create a Challenge Delivering Pain to

    Appreciate Pleasure More For Real

    SMiLes Mr Gottfried When i Get Richer i
    Live Poorer Than before to Become Richer Even More

    SMiLes Mr Gottfried i Break my Body Down When i Work-out

    to the Point i Can
    Barely Walk Before i
    Hit the Bed Waking Stronger
    Than ever Before A Strangest Statistic

    in the United States 50 Percent of Folks
    Making 6 Figures Live Pay Check to Pay Check

    It’s True Most Human
    Beings Don’t Understand

    The Secret to Pleasure is Pain

    The Secret to Becoming Richer is Living Poorer
    The Secret to Getting Stronger is Working
    Out to Exhaustion It’s True Not Everyone

    Fits Through
    The EYe of the
    Needle of Pain
    Poorer And Exhaustion
    to Arrive at Heaven Now

    True The Secret of Heaven is Hell

    Other Than That Good Early Morning in Nigeria

    With
    SMiLes

    Tween

    Hell and Heaven…
    True The Rest is LoVE iN Peace..:)

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      1. Ah Yes Mr. Gottfried That Moment of Sweet Relief

        When All the Pain Goes Away Truly Monumental

        When the Suicide Disease Pain Went Away After
        66 Months From Wake to Sleep And True Even More

        So the Numb of Never Remembering the Feelings of A Smile too

        Well Tonight All i Got Relief From was 3 Laps around the Neighborhood

        Block of
        Hip Spasms
        Likely Related
        to my Sciatica Nerve

        Yes Almost Ready To Give
        Up the 4th Lap And Voila
        The Spasms And Pain Let

        My Butt Go And Once again
        i Could Move My Leg Freely to Walk

        Such Sweet Relief Pain Can And Will
        Truly Make Us A Believer in Gratitude
        if We Become FRiEnDS Enough With it

        to Help it Go Away or Basically Just Don’t
        Give Up in Hell When All Hope is Completely Gone

        And SMiLes
        Have Melted
        Away into Dante’s
        Frozen Hell For Real

        Oh to Be Free From Frozen
        Hell Surely Makes Buttocks
        Spasms Not All that Bad to Wait
        to Go Away on the 4th Lap Before

        Falling into Bed From the Exhaustion of the Day
        It’s True A Worst Poverty is Not Coming to Feel
        And Sense And Do More of Our Human Healing Potentials ThiS WaY
        Other than that Whatever Your Pain is i Have a Feeling it Will Go Away

        And if it Does
        It Wasn’t me
        it was Your
        Great Faith That Sends it Away
        As they Say Pain Is Weakness Leaving Our
        Soul or Perhaps The Beginning of More Gratitude with SMiLes..:)

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          1. SMiLes Mr Gottfried The Poorest Among Us Are Often
            The Richest Within Far Beyond Dollar BiLL NuMBeRS As

            They Have Lived A Life to Appreciate What They

            Have Who They Are What They Do and

            Who They Love Newly Now

            Naked Enough Whole

            Complete

            WHere LoVE iN Peace
            Is A Greatest Pay Grade
            Pay Rate And Currency of Pay

            Together Warm Secure and True LoVE iN Peace

            As i Extend my Arms and Fingers Out Gratitude for A Touch

            oF LoVE
            iN Peace
            For Real
            God Yes
            Naked Enough
            Whole Complete
            ToGeTHeR For Real..:)

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          3. HAha Mr Gottfried
            Many A Real Fool
            Has Mistaken Balance

            For Weakness

            The Lion Needs
            No Human “Clothes”

            For
            Strength
            Nor The Shark
            Surviving Nearly

            Half A Billion Years
            Longer Than Trees
            That Allow Humans

            To Breathe With SMiles⚽️

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  9. On top of those signs, the main sign of poverty is if you have to work for 40 hours per week, to fulfil mostly your basic needs, and have little leisure time.

    As a political economist, however, I must say that poverty is not necessary.

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          1. Well it is predictable, no? At least in the way you mean it. Because they do participate, but they participate by trying to do the exact opposite: perpetuate poverty. And this makes it even harder to eradicate it. But it might still be possible, and certainly worthwhile, due to the impacts that it has.

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          2. I believe very strongly on the whole that certain things can’t be phased out. I know we’ve had small success in the past like with small pox but I believe it is firm in the hearts of men to not allow for equity.

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