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Poor but Proud
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A slip of a boy I hope you enjoy
Who would be big but would not be a pig

At least I never got fat there was that
And so I am not Uncle Jack at last
Having wasted almost away I guess
But doing it my way no matter what
Leaving my baggage back there in the past

Wasting nor wanting not what I forgot

And this is what there is not more but less
My belly like an empty basket now
A begging bowl although my soul is full
But life goes on and so do I somehow
And all of it at last is beautiful

Thinking of what is and not what is not

I want to be and so I think I will
Go on as I have gone am going still
Although the going is improbably
Going my way for now more than likely
I have to go no matter what I do

But when having gone then I will go on

And so I might as well write this for you
Tell you the truth as I see it be it
As best I can embody and free it
Live all I can when I can such as I
Am then by seeing it through till I die

Then to go on when the going is gone

My hair got all white but that was all right
Because I wondered how I could be me
At all anyway yet here I am now
To wonder and get it all right somehow
When afternoon is evening then midnight

Laughing last though in extremity
Poor but proud as loud as I can be



+Steven Curtis Lance



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 Reviews of "Poor but Proud"
Reviewed on May 30, 2013
Yes, "Thinking of what is and what is not", says it all.

Love ya!

Jane Elin

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on May 30, 2013
a very enjoyable write
budd


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