A nerd bitten by the charity bug, Spoke of slum children’s education And shining darkness in their eyes. In the shanties ,the water flows Like a shadow in cloudy daylight And smells bad to the kind rich. My check glistens in the dark Like a meteorite on a dark night In the next moment it vanishes In the depths of hunger and belly. Other men have fat bank accounts But are spiritual for soul-hunger. Poetry sounds crassly out of place- One would wish the black sewer Is not talked about in prose as well.