Saturday, March 26, 2016

de povret

when i start to feel
useless and miserable,
my heart usually
tells me to cool it
and not be feeling
so sorry for myself,
getting depressed with
so much general decay.


it bids me remember
how poverty is
the spectre of genius,
and better to be

poor and live under
a writing table,
than rich and rot
behind nine tons of granite.


villon

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