When you are feeling very poor
by Angela Lansbury
When you are feeling very poor
You wash sesame seeds dropped on the floor
You shut the curtains and lick the plates
Instead of sweets suck stones from dates
You feel each meal owes you some more
Once rich, retired, now feeling poor
You cut a chocolate into three
You asked your dieting friends to tea
“No, please, you have the bigger half!”
’though feeling poor, we feast and laugh
The plates’ licked, washing up’s no chore
Life’s still good ’though we’re feeling poor.
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Copyright Angela Lansbury 20.Feb 2015
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