Poverty

Poverty! O poverty!

Please leave us.

Or else we can't eat

or can't even get on a bus.

See, how do we live?

Have some sympathy.

Or else, how can I eat?

And give food to my sister, Dorothy?

Aunt Mary's medicine

Is way too costly,

I beg if you want to leave us

Please leave us swiftly.

Poverty! O poverty!

Please leave us.

Or else, how can we live?

How can we be prosperous?