Poor People With Money

A poem based on my stupid uncle in Nicaragua who backstabbed the family and kept selling our farmland to make fast money so he can please his young girlfriends to please them. They left him eventually

If the poor won the lottery
We will give it all away
We'll go on a spending spree
We actually believe money
Grows on trees
So we will spend it on things
We don't need
While the rich know how to invest it
They get a return in their investment
But the poor is stuck with resentment
My cousin won a settlement
But she was quick to spend it
She could have bought a house
and could have rent it
and live off the payments
Instead she bought 3 cars
and crashed them all
Now the money is gone
She was very dumb
In Nicaragua
My grandfather owned a bunch of farmland
But when he died
My uncle sold as much as he can
He found a hot young woman
Who is half his age
But to keep her by his side
He had to pay
So he thought with his penis
And sold half the land
Just for a piece of a a*s
But when the money didn't last
She dumped him fast
But now he has kids
They now went to college
So he sold more land
Behind everyone's back
To pay for their tuition
But when the money ran out
They stopped calling him
Materialistic poor people
Are really damn stupid
The rich laughs
as they put money in the bank
The poor cries
Cuz they gave away all that had
With no plan
They will never get their money back

Reviews

[oxo]

true. if you don't want to get stuck in poverty, nothing can stop you to get rich. problem is, we're stuck in our 'psychological wallet'. if we're not used to earning this big, we tend to lose them, all at once.

[Xeru]

Wisdom

[Michael Soul]

yes true reality

[CHRIS ANDES]

this is reality that's like a curse happened repeatedly all over the world
money is indeed evil
and the people abusing it is no human
=]

[mary mary quite contrar..]

I like your poem
I hope I never have money-when you are poor you can always survive with what you have-when you are rich and become poor - you freak out

[Pax]

i find this realistic and fun to read.
realistic in some way true and not, it depends on the people's choices.
great view on things, enjoyed it.

[Autumn Dawn Gorny]

So true, sadly. The problem is if you don't earn it you don't appreciate it that much. Yeah it is easy to say "I would be smarter than...." but you never know how money will effect you until you have it.

[GunMetal]

One of my favorite columnists on cracked.com wrote an article about the same thing. Here's the link if you're interested.
As he says it, being poor is a mind state. But it's a whole different thing to take money that belongs to a collective group (like your family) and waste it on trivial things for personal, temporary gain. Good write man.

[Persephone]

Very true - I love your work as usual! You have painted a honest picture, just as it is! Thanks for sharing :)

[Destinyxi]

Nicely written, as usual!